Caption on back: "Flower Lady: Mrs. Connie Sullivan of Plaza Square waters flowers at the apartment complex Thursday. Mrs. Sullivan asked the city to plant flowers, a request that was granted under the condition that she would take care of them… and she has, for five years."
"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."
"Downtown equivalent of the front porch is available to the Plaza Square residents in the form of balconies. Here Mrs. Roger Fox, 20 Plaza Square, with dog Sheba, shows a visitor the view from her ninth-floor apartment."
"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).
"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."
"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."
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."
"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."
"A Plaza Square apartment building was purchased Tuesday by the Bethesda General Hospital for a domiciliary home for persons aged 65 or over. Purchase price for the building at 60 Plaza Square was $2,185,000. Persons living in the home will pay a life residence fee ranging from about $3000 to $12,000 and a monthly charge of $150 to $200 for food, medical, nursing and maid services. Extensive
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."
"A sign of spring is the Milles Fountain, which is again playing opposite Union Station. Enjoying the cool spray between trains are Donna, 10, and her 14-month-old brother, Kenneth, children of Sgt. And Mrs. Alfred Blackburne, who were en route from New York to Newburgh, Mo."
Caption on back: "Market is a street of contrasts. The Milles Fountain adjoins Market's "Wild West" area of pawnshops, taverns, cut-rate hotels soon to be demolished.
"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."
Elevated view of the Plaza Apartments buildings under construction. The project would become the first urban renewal project to be completed in St. Louis.