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Title: Plaza Apartments - Federal building
Date: 1960-04, 1960-04
Description: Image of Plaza Square Apartments advertisement (not shown) in front of a new federal building that is nearing completion near the apartment complex.

Title: Plaza Apartments Patio Party
Date: 1961-09-26, 1961-09-27
Description: Corporation, which raised funds to creat the $15,000,000 development." "View of patio-court between #30 and #20 Plaza Square, looking east to #20, with Centenary Methodist Church (Pine St.) at left. Surface parking at either side of patio-court, which features lily pond in center and lattice-covered resting area."

Title: Plaza Apartments - Preview, lower picture
Date: 1960-01-28, 1960-01-29
Description: "Alderman John Roddy (left) chats with John T. Dickmann, general manager of the Plaza Square Apartments, during a preview of 16 furnished display apartments, which will be open to the public at noon Friday. They are seated in the living room of an apartment which includes a separate bedroom and kitchen. Mrs. Carole Poehner (below) of the Dolan Company, which is handling rentals, sits in the

Title: Plaza Apartments - At breakfast
Date: 1960-06-22, 1960-06-26
Description: Captioned on back: "Breakfast can be leisurely for Mr. and Mrs. Fred W. Laskwitz, now that they live at 30 Plaza Square. Instead of a 17-mile drive from Florissant, he can now walk to work in five minutes."

Title: San Luis Apartments - Corsage
Date: 1976-05-07, 1976-05-08
Description: Original caption: "Corsages were numerous at the '76 Senior Prom. Mrs. Frieda L. Barrett, 93 1/2 years young wears a corsage from her lover… her son."

Title: San Luis Apartments - Formerly Holiday Inn
Date: 1973-01-16, 1973-01-16
Description: San Luis Apartments on Lindell Blvd; formerly the Holiday Inn at Midtown.

Title: Plaza Apartments - Progress continues
Date: 1959-07-26, 1959-07-26
Description: "Plaza progress continues as work goes rapidly ahead on 13-story apartment buildings being erected in the area bounded by Fifteenth, Chestnut, Seventeenth, and Olive streets. This view, looking north from Sixteenth and Market streets, shows two of the six buildings in the development along with the Cenetary Methodist Church and St. John's Basilica, which will serve residents when the 1090 units

Title: Plaza Apartments - Area to be cleared for Plaza development
Date: 1955-04-08, 1955-04-08
Description: , bounded roughly by Eighteenth, Market, Fourteenth and Olive, will be cleared away to make a connecting parkway with Memorial Plaza and a housing development. Demolition work will begin Apr. 19."

Title: Plaza Apartments - Launching Plaza Redevelopment Project
Date: 1958-06-09, 1958-06-10
Description: "Launching Plaza Redevelopment Project, Russell E. Gardner, president of the Urban Redevelopment Corporation, scoops up the forst shovelful of dirt. Lining the treat of the big shovel are (from the left) Daniel Sheehan, a member of the firm's executive board; Preston Estep, treasurer, and Aloys P. Kaufmann, president of the St. Louis Chamber of Commerce. At right, Mr. Kaufmann shows Mr. Gardner where to dump the first scoopful. The housing project got underway at Fifteenth and Chestnut streets yesterday."

Title: Plaza Apartments - The project begins
Date: 1958-06-09, 1958-06-10
Description: "Launching Plaza Redevelopment Project, Russell E. Gardner, president of the Urban Redevelopment Corporation, scoops up the forst shovelful of dirt. Lining the treat of the big shovel are (from the left) Daniel Sheehan, a member of the firm's executive board; Preston Estep, treasurer, and Aloys P. Kaufmann, president of the St. Louis Chamber of Commerce. At right, Mr. Kaufmann shows Mr. Gardner where to dump the first scoopful. The housing project got underway at Fifteenth and Chestnut streets yesterday."

Title: Plaza Apartments - New federal building
Date: 1960-04, 1960-04
Description: Image of Plaza Square Apartments advertisement in front of a new federal building that is nearing completion adjacent to the apartment complex.

Title: Plaza Apartments - Filling in the holes
Date: 1958-12-05, 1958-12-05
Description: Caption on back: "Filling in unsightly holes in the Plaza redevelopment area gets underway as the basement of the Reed Hotel, which was demolished when the area was cleared, is buried under dirt excavated at sites of three apartment buildings going up in the area. The site and Fifteenth and Pine streets will ultimately be improved with commercial buildings and a parking lot for Plaza residents. All of the eyesore holes in the Plaza area will be eliminated as quickly as possible."

Title: Plaza Apartments - Excavation inspection
Date: 1959-06-02, 1959-06-02
Description: "Inspecting a barricade around a 30-foot deep excavation for an underground garage in the Plaza Development is Building Commissioner Albert H. Baum (top photo). Lower picture (not present) shows a view of the excavation separated from busy Olive street traffic by flimsy boards."

Title: Plaza Apartments - Test borings
Date: 1958-08-11, 1958-08-12
Description: "Plaza development gets under way at Fifteenth and Pine Streets where test borings are being made prior to construction of a three-story rectory by St. John's Catholic Church and the laying of a sewer line by the Urban Redevelopment Corporation. The block, which extends to Sixteeth and Chestnut streets, has been selected for the first building in the 1090-unit Plaza apartment project. It will be

Title: Plaza Apartments - Buildings to be demolished for development
Date: 1955-04-17, 1955-04-17
Description: Caption on back: "Sign of the times: The MOVED sign on the Model Hotel and Auditorium Bar means that the building and some 86 others in the area are about to be razed in St. Louis's latest slum-clearance project."

Title: Plaza Apartments - Design plan
Date: 1953-08-18, 1953-08-18
Description: Caption on back: "Before and after: If the $1,500,000 Plaza bond issue is approved by the voters at the special elections Sept. 29. Photo at top shows area as it is today, looking west across Memorial Plaza. Funds from the bond issue would be used to turn section outlined in left background into a parkway connecting the Memorial at Aloe Plaza. If the bonds are approved, then work can go ahead

Title: Plaza Apartments - Fourteen old coins found in salvage
Date: 1955-07-06, 1955-07-06
Description: "Fourteen old coins in the Plaza area demolition were found by Jay Sirolos, 4622A Pope ave., superintendent of salvage operations for Prock & Ehinger Construction Co. Some of the coins, found in wreckage at 1719 Market st., dated back to 1827."

Title: Plaza Apartments - Construction, elevated view
Description: Elevated view of the Plaza Apartment buildings under construction. The project would become the first urban renewal project to be completed in St. Louis.

Title: Plaza Apartments - Mayor Tucker swings the wrecking ball
Date: 1955-04-20, 1956-01-02
Description: the ceremony the most important he had participated in since becoming mayor." "Dust an bricks flew when Mayor Tucker manned the controls to swing a 4700-pound metal ball against a two-story building at 1627 Chestnut st., to begin demolition for redevelopment of the Plaza area. This scene was photographed Apr. 19." "Mayor Tucker guides the iron ball from crane to strike the first blow at building at

Title: Plaza Apartments - Watermelon Splash
Date: 1977-07-14, 1977-07-15
Description: "Ah, Watermelon - Lorraine McGinnis enjoys her piece of watermelon at the Watermelon Splash held by the residents of the Plaza Square Apartments downtown. The event benefits the civic service hobby of the Volunteer Gardeners of Plaza Square, who cultivate many flower beds in and around downtown."

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