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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 - Viewed from southeast
Date: 1961, 1961
Description: "Plaza Square Apartments viewed to southeast from 17th Street (foreground, left to right) where it is intersected by Pine. #30 Plaza Square (right) contains model display apartments with entrance at far right at 17th and Chestnut."

Title: Plaza Apartments - Viewed to northwest
Date: 1961, 1961
Description: "Plaza Square Apartments viewed to northwest from corner of Chestnut Street (left foreground) and 15th Street (right). St. John's Catholic Church is located between #20 Plaza Square and #10 (center foreground).

Title: Plaza Apartments - New residents
Date: 1960-01-29, 1960-01-31
Description: "Admiring the view from one of the Plaza apartment balconies are David Zerker, a Terminal Railroad employee, and his fiance, Mary Jo Mills, a student at Marquette University. They plan to move into Plaza Square after their marriage in June."

Title: Plaza Apartments - Side view of building
Date: 1962-10-07, 1962-10-07
Description: A side view of a Plaza Apartments building. The project became the first urban renewal project to be completed in St. Louis.

Title: Plaza Apartments - Site preperation
Date: 1958-10-16, 1958-10-17
Description: "Preperation of Plaza site for the first of six 13-story apartment buildings begins as a Fruin-Colnon Contracting Company crane starts digging up an old sewer line, which will be relocated. The task is expected to take two weeks after which excavation for the first building will begin on the west side of Fifteenth street at Chestnut."

Title: Plaza Apartments - Hoisting engineers strike
Date: 1960-05-02, 1960-05-02
Description: Caption: "Workmen sitting idle in the 1600 block of Pine because of strike of hoisting engineers of local 513 which has halted work on Plaza Apartments."

Title: Plaza Apartments - Looking east near 18th & Pine
Date: 1960-12-20, 1960-12-20
Description: Plaza Apartments, the first urban renewal project completed in St. Louis, looking east near 18th & Pine.

Title: Plaza Apartments - Exterior side view
Date: 1981, 1981
Description: Side exterior image of Plaza Apartments, the first urban renewal project to be completed in St. Louis.

Title: Plaza Apartments - Leasing for immediate occupancy
Date: 1960-08-05, 1960-08-05
Description: "For rent sign approved by the Municipal Art Commission has been placed on the Chestnut street side of one of the buildings in the Plaza Square apartment development between Fifteenth and Seventeenth streets. Three of the six buildings in the project have been completed and about a third of the 1090 apartments have been rented, officials reported."

Title: Plaza Apartments - Debris from demolition
Date: 1955-07-07, 1955-07-07
Description: Caption on back: "Debris piles up along the 1500 block of Pine street following the collapse of a portion of a building being demolished to make way for the Plaza housing project. No one was hurt, but one woman fell while scampering to safety."

Title: Plaza Apartments - Pre-development Plaza area photographed from across 17th Street to the east.
Date: 1955-04-27, 1955-04-27
Description: The Plaza area photographed from across 17th Street to the east prior to the development of Plaza Apartments.

Title: Plaza Apartments - Completed
Date: 1961-01-06, 1961-01-06
Description: "One of the several completed Plaza Square apartment buildings skirting the downtown area of St. Louis. The view is toward the Northeast, showing in the background the Warwick Hotel at the left and the Central Public Library and the Shell office building at the right."

Title: Plaza Apartments - Construction, church side view
Date: 1959-08, 1959-08
Description: Elevated view of the Plaza Apartments buildings under construction. The project would become the first urban renewal project to be completed in St. Louis.

Title: Plaza Apartments - Pre-development demolition
Date: 1955-04-27, 1955-04-27
Description: "Demolition of Plaza area buildings was well underway yesterday just a week after Mayor Tucker participated in demolition of the first building in the area whil will become a private housing project and a public park. The clearance program involves about eight blocks. The area is shown from teh roof of the EIghteenth Street garage, looking across Seventeenth street to the east. Chestnut street is at left."

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