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Title: City Hall
Description: 8.6x6.5 in photograph of City Hall in St. Louis at Twelfth (Tucker) and Market. This Chateauesque building was designed by the firm of Eckel and Mann with Harvey Ellis as the lead architect. It was built in 1893.

Title: Plaza Apartments - Construction begins
Date: 1958-10-28, 1958-10-29
Description: "Actual construction of the first apartment building in the Plaza project got underway yesterday as this crane began excavating at Fifteenth and Pine streets. Relocation of a sewer line around the site has been substantially completed by the Fruin-Colnon Contracting Company, which will erect six 13-story apartment buildings in the development."

Title: Plaza Apartments - Reaching for the sky
Date: 1959-09-02, 1959-09-04
Description: "Reaching for the Sky: Soaring higher and higher are the six 13-story apartment buildings under construction in the downtown Plaza Redevelopment Project. Steel being hoisted by the crane in this picture will be fitted into upper-floor construction of one of the buildings at Seventeenth and Pine streets. The buildings, which are to be completed simultaneously, according to present construction

Title: Plaza Apartments - Under construction
Date: 1959-08, 1959-08
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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - Construction, ground view
Date: 1959-07-24, 1959-07-24
Description: Street level view of the Plaza Apartments buildings under construction, with advertizing signage. The project would become the first urban renewal project to be completed in St. Louis.

Title: Plaza Apartments - Building designs
Date: 1958-12-08, 1958-12-08
Description: "Downtown Plaza apartment buildings now under construction are the three 13-story structures in the front row of this drawing by architects Hellmuth, Obata, and Kassabaum, Inc. Between two of them is St. John's Basilica. They are in the two blocks bounded by Chestnut street (foreground), Fifteenth street (Right), Pine and Seventeeth Streets (left). Construction of the three apartment buildings

Title: University Heights Apartments - Approaching completion
Date: 1961-10-13, 1961-10-16
Description: "Approaching completion are Maisonette and Garden Apartments being built in the University Heights section of the Mill Creek Valley redevelopment area. Waring School is on the left in this view looking west from Compton avenue at Laclede. The apartments are in the first group, which will house 20 families. A total of 120 living units are included in the entire University Heights project.

Title: Columbus Square Apartments Construction
Date: 1980-10-02, 1980-10-03
Description: BIG HOLE…. George Miller of the Northwood Excavating Company moves a caterpiller inside one of the excavation sites near Cole Street between 10th and 11th street. Miller grades a lot near Cole Street between 10th and 11th street.

Title: Construction At Columbus Square Apartments
Date: 1984-01-19, 1984-01-19
Description: North of new Columbus Square apartment to show scene.

Title: Schematic of a Building for the State Division of Employment Security at Broadway
Date: 1958-12-04
Description: "Bids will be opened today in Jefferson City for construction of this glass and marble office building for the State Division of Employment Security at Broadway and Washington in downtown St. Louis. The sketch is by architects Hellmuth, Obata &Kassabaum, who designed the building. Construction is expected to start early next year."

Title: Individuals Protesting Outside the Employment Security Building
Date: 1979-03-15
Description: Protestors outside of the Employment Security Building

Title: New Building for the State Division of Employment Security
Date: 1959-06-03
Description: "The new $1,450,000 building to house the St. Louis office of the State Division of Employment Security on the northwest corner of Broadway and Washington avenue was only a hole in the ground when the phot..was taken on the last day the Globe-Democrat published before the strike."

Title: Driving Piles for Office Building
Date: 1959-01-29
Description: "Driving piles for a new state office building here is underway at Broadway and Washington. The three-story structure on the northwest corner of the intersection will be in contemporary style with a facade of glass, concrete and light-colored marble. It will house the St. Louis office of the Missouri Division of Employment Security."

Title: Image from the Employment Security Building
Date: 1979-03-15
Description: Image of a protestor speaking with an employee at the Employment Security Building

Title: Site for Office Building at Washington and Broadway
Date: 1958-07-12
Description: Site for office building at Washington and Broadway

Title: Dedication Ceremony for New Employment Security Building
Date: 1960-01-22
Description: "Dedicating new Employment Security Building at 505 Washington ave. is Gov, James T. Blair. Seated on the platform are (from the left) County Supervisor James McNary; Charles DeLargy, St. Louis manager of the Division of Employment Security; Dr. O. Walter Wagner, executive secretary of the Metropolitan Church Federation; the Most Rev. Glennon P. Flavin, auxiliary bishop of St. Louis; Mayor Tucker; Arnie Solem of Kansas City, director of Employment Security for Region 7; Rabbi Bertram Klausner, presidnt of the St. Louis Rabbinical Association, and William U. Norwood Jr., assistant director in charge of the Employment Service Bureau in Washington."

Title: State Employment Office
Date: 1959-12-15
Description: "New State Office Building at 505 Washington ave. will house the Missouri Division of Employment Security"

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