Great, great, great grandson of Pierre Chouteau,
One of the founders of the city of St. Louis;
Son of Edward and Winnifred Walsh, after whom
The former Walsh Stadium and the nearby Walsh
Residence Hall are named;
Faithful . . . — — Map (db m145158) HM
Walter Ong, S.J. (1912-2003), entered the Society of Jesus in 1935, receiving his master's degree in English at Saint Louis University in 1941 and his Ph.D. at Harvard University in 1955. He remained at SLU as a teacher and prodigious . . . — — Map (db m145157) HM
The ceiling decorations, painted under Mr. Shaw's direction, depict the flora of the world. Restored in 1930 and opened for the first time as an auditorium in that year. — — Map (db m219288) HM
Constructed between 1859 and 1860, this neoclassic building is one of only five original structures at the Garden by Henry Shaw. While the exterior was designed by George l.Barnett, the interior resembles Museum No. 2, the Economic Botany Museum . . . — — Map (db m78882) HM
Constructed between 1859 and 1860, this neoclassical building is one of only five original structures at the Garden built by Henry Shaw. While the exterior was designed by George I. Barnett, the interior resembles Museum No. 2, the Economic . . . — — Map (db m219379) HM
Founded in 1991, the Center for Home Gardening provides information, help, and inspiration for home gardeners of all levels of mastery. The Center houses a classroom, year-round displays, a resource library, and the Plant Doctor Desk. The 8.5 . . . — — Map (db m219515) HM
Jefferson National Expansion Memorial
Gateway Arch
The Gateway Arch is a 630 feet tall stainless steel structure designed by famous architect Eero Saarinen. It symbolizes St. Louis's role as the gateway to the west.
A tram takes . . . — — Map (db m144261) HM
Born in Dublin, Irl'd
Mar. 21, 1837
Died
Sept. 6, 1897
R.I.P.
First Pastor
of St. Cronan's Church
Priest & Poet
Ordained in
Maynooth
Mar. 17, 1864 — — Map (db m62045) HM
Native of Cavan, Ireland
Born June 2, 1838
Ordained June 29, 1862
Died February 5, 1898
Founder and first pastor
of Saint Agnes Church
R.I.P. — — Map (db m62039) HM
Born May 8, 1852
in Bruff, Co. Limerick, Ireland
Ordained at Montreal, Canada
Dec. 18, 1891
Died Pastor of Farmington, Mo.
Apr. 21, 1906
Burial services at
St. Bridget's Church, City
Asst. Priest
St. Patrick's Church
St. . . . — — Map (db m62044) HM
Susan Blow, daughter of Congressman Henry Blow, helped introduce the 1st kindergarten program to the State of Missouri and the U.S. — — Map (db m139706) HM
Mel Bay bought his first guitar at age thirteen, taught himself to play and was performing publicly within a few months. He moved to St. Louis in 1933, where he fronted his own trio and taught up to 100 students per week. In 1947 Bay published his . . . — — Map (db m124803) HM
In 1938, two years after graduating from the University of Turin, Italian neurobiologist Levi-Montalcini was forced to continue her research in a makeshift bedroom lab because Fascist laws barred Jews from academic careers. In 1946 she came to . . . — — Map (db m124931) HM
Originally constructed as the Lyon School in 1868 at a cost of $42,000, this building was intended to serve educational needs of the entire far southern and western portions of St. Louis. It was named in honor of Captain Nathaniel Lyon, the . . . — — Map (db m133131) HM
The original Lafayette School stood on this site in the middle of the 19th Century. The elementary school was named for Marie Jean Paul Lafayette, French-born American Revolutionary War hero. In 1906, architect William B. Ittner designed a new, . . . — — Map (db m160366) HM
Formed in 1839, Trinity is the oldest Lutheran congregation west of the Mississippi River. The congregation moved to this location from a site farther northeast near the river. The 1864 building, destroyed in the 1896 cyclone, was replaced with the . . . — — Map (db m158595) HM
Dr. George Washington Carver 🌱
Josephine Baker
Les Annees Jazz
Behind
the Scenes
or
Thirty Years a Slave
and Four Years in the
White House
Elizabeth Keckley
When you control a man's . . . — — Map (db m219532) HM
Nobel Laureate Dr. Edward A. Doisy (1893-1986) earned his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1920. He joined the Saint Louis University faculty in 1923 where he discovered estrogens only a few years later. In 1943, he received the Nobel Price in . . . — — Map (db m145661) HM
Fern de Greeff described it as love at first sight when she met her husband, Russell, in 1933. Both had similar upbringings in south St. Louis. On their third date, Rus proposed to Fern, and a year later they were married, marking the start of a . . . — — Map (db m147868) HM
Robert S. Brookings moved from Maryland to St. Louis in 1867 to take a job as a clerk and became one of the city's most successful businessmen. In 1895 he crowned his business career with the construction of the historic Cupples Station Warehouse . . . — — Map (db m124890) HM
Born in Grenoble, France, Rose Philippine Duchesne was drawn to a life of religious service. She led five Religious of the Sacred Heart Nuns to the St. Louis area in 1818, settling in the then frontier town of St. Charles, where Duchesne opened the . . . — — Map (db m124711) HM
Born May 30, 1869 daughter of Elbridge G. and Mary E. Long Payne. She lived here most of her life. She taught the one-room Fee Fee School in Pattonville, 1893-1896. She married William R. Gentry, of Columbia, Missouri, who moved here and became a . . . — — Map (db m169162) HM
Name: Alt School House
Built by: Evangelical Lutheran Concordia Congregation UAC
Location: Reinke Road in Ellisville, south of Manchester Road.
Facts:
First teacher was paid $100 per year.
Tuition was 75’ per . . . — — Map (db m179214) HM
On this site stood Attucks School, the School District of Clayton's second school to serve African American children. Named for Crispus Attucks, the first casualty of the Boston Massacre of 1770, the school educated students from kindergarten . . . — — Map (db m244725) HM
Father Dickson Cemetery was founded in 1903. The cemetery is named for Moses Dickson, a prominent African American abolitionist who passed away in 1901 and was re-interred here. This was one of the first public cemeteries in St. Louis available to . . . — — Map (db m163583) HM
This authentic log cabin, home to five generations of Hackmanns, was originally located on the current site of the Creve Coeur Golf Course and Dielmann Recreation Complex. It began as one room in the early 1800s and became the home of Mr. and Mrs. . . . — — Map (db m185707) HM
Originally built in 1897 to serve the educational needs of the community, Lake School was constructed on the south side of Olive Boulevard, just west of the juncture with Hog Hollow, in what is now Chesterfield.
The settlement, Lake, got its . . . — — Map (db m185706) HM
Rita Meyer born in Old Town Florissant, oldest of seven children, Member of AAGPBL 1946 to 1949 for the Peoria Redwings, played shortstop & pitcher, RBI leader 1948. Nicknamed "Slats" after Cardinal shortstop Marty Marion. Married Robert Moellering . . . — — Map (db m145301) HM
To the Native Americans, she was the Woman Who Always Prays. Born in France, she came to Florissant in 1819. Her convent home still stands and with Old St. Ferdinand's Shrine is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. She opened the . . . — — Map (db m140720) HM
King of Spain from 1217 to 1252, he was canonized by Pope Clement X in 1671. He was a capable and just administrator, spreading Christianity throughout his kingdom. He drove the Moors out of most of Spain, founded monasteries, established the . . . — — Map (db m149381) HM
Beloved wife of Fred Gladbach for 65 years. Mary Kay is a true model of community spirit & faithfulness to her church. She co-founded & served as Volunteer Principal of Sacred Heart Kindergarten for years. She also expanded the "Little School" to . . . — — Map (db m229705) HM
The Little Red Schoolhouse, once named the Old Elm Grove School, was built in 1852 and is recognized as one of the earliest school buildings in the county. This brick structure is typical of the one-room schools of the period. The school was closed . . . — — Map (db m217345) HM
In 1852 this land was obtained from Owen Collins by the Pacific Railroad for a right of way and in 1863 a frame depot was built. Here members of the first school board met to draft the charter of the Kirkwood School District which was granted on . . . — — Map (db m140848) HM
Built by the Illinois Central railroad at it's Burnside shops in Chicago with the instruments provided by the University of Illinois (the car was jointly owned). The dynamometer car is a rolling laboratory that tests the pulling power of . . . — — Map (db m132993) HM
In 1944, St. Louis physician Dr. John Payne Roberts took action after learning a local transit company was sending a streetcar to a war-effort scrap drive. Fearing a piece of history would be lost, Roberts connected with other like-minded . . . — — Map (db m231294) HM
Natural Bridge Road, the UMSL Campus and Surrounding Communities
This section of Natural Bridge Road began in St. Louis County in about 1837 as Owens Station Road, when it led from Normandy to Owens Station, a community that was . . . — — Map (db m151682) HM
Dedicated to the founders of UMSL the residents of the Normandy area, whose generosity and foresight in acquiring the old Bellerive Country Club made this campus possible.
The clubhouse, which stood on this site, was the University's first . . . — — Map (db m151671) HM
The one-room log cabin schoolhouse was built on two acres of land donated by Mrs. Elizabeth Smith. The school was erected for the descendants of the first pioneers. Prof. Thomas W. Goldie from England was the first teacher. In 1867, a rural school . . . — — Map (db m150903) HM
Mrs. Elizabeth Smith owned more than 400 acres of land in this vicinity. She donated two acres of land to build a one-room cabin in 1846 known as the Buck Schoolhouse. The validity of her land title was questionable, for when she sold the remainder . . . — — Map (db m145881) HM
In 1855 a temporary school for Negro children was begun here. This school and Buck School were incorporated into the rural district of Ritenour in 1867. In 1888 residents voted 16-1 to build and furnish a permanent school for negroes. In 1913 this . . . — — Map (db m145605) HM
By the late 1800s, many local large landowners began subdividing their property for residential developments. Property formerly part of the Charles and Mary Rannells Home Farm was purchased by Evens Howard Firebrick Company along with adjacent . . . — — Map (db m145185) HM
First city of the Trans-Mississippi West and second permanent settlement in Missouri. Founded, 1764, by the New Orleans Frenchman Laclede as a trading post to tap the rich fur resources of the Missouri Valley. Named for canonized Louis IX, French . . . — — Map (db m140858) HM
Arthur Holly Compton, a science prodigy, built and flew a glider at age 18. In 1920 he became a professor and head of the Physics Department at Washington University. There he deduced that x-rays, known to be waves, also act like particles. He . . . — — Map (db m124761) HM
Barry Commoner joined the faculty of Washington University in St. Louis in 1947. In 34 years there he explored viral function and led cellular research with implications for cancer diagnosis. Alarmed in the early 1950s by the health risks posed by . . . — — Map (db m124698) HM
Carl Ferdinand Cori and Gerty Theresa Radnitz earned medical degrees from the German University of Prague in 1920 and married later that year. After that they joined the Washington University School of Medicine in 1931, their discovery of the . . . — — Map (db m124775) HM
A revolutionary designer, Charles Eames was born in St. Louis and studied architecture at Washington University. He settled in Venice, California when he designed some of the most innovative furniture of the most Post-War Modern period with his wife . . . — — Map (db m124664) HM
Documentary filmmaker Charles Guggenheim started his first production company in St. Louis in 1954. A four-time Oscar winner, he received his first of 12 Academy Award nominations in 1956 for "A City Decides," a film about the integration of St. . . . — — Map (db m124627) HM
David Rowland Francis came to St. Louis in 1866 and graduated from Washington University in 1870. A successful businessman, he was elected Mayor of St. Louis in 1885 and Governor of Missouri in 1888; he later served as Secretary of the Interior from . . . — — Map (db m124546) HM
A loyal native whose mother allowed him to choose any college that was "Catholic and in St. Louis," Ed Macauley led the Saint Louis University basketball team to the 1948 NIT National Championship and won AP Player of the year in 1949. Later a high . . . — — Map (db m124569) HM
One of the 20th century's most prominent surgeons, Evarts A. Graham chaired the Department of Surgery at Washington University from 1919 to 1951. Under his direction, it became a world leader in surgical procedures and training. Graham performed the . . . — — Map (db m124751) HM
An inspiring educator, Gerald Early was appointed the Merle Kling Professor of Modern Letters in English and served as Director of Washington University's Center for the Humanities, the American Culture Studies Program, and the African and African . . . — — Map (db m124715) HM
A Chicago native, Harold Ramis attended Washington University in St. Louis and graduated in 1966. Inspired by life in a fraternity house on Forsyth Boulevard, Ramis co-wrote the 1978 collegiate farce "Animal House," the first of his box-office hits. . . . — — Map (db m124699) HM
Howard Nemerov graduated from Harvard in 1941, served in World War II and began teaching in 1946. His first volume of Poetry, "The Image and the Law," was published the next year, in 1969 he became professor of English at Washington University. In . . . — — Map (db m124948) HM
A native of Hungary, Joseph Pulitzer emigrated to the U.S. in 1864 and served in the Union Army during the Civil War. He moved to St. Louis in 1868, to work as a reporter for a German-language newspaper. He bought the bankrupt St. Louis Dispatch in . . . — — Map (db m124929) HM
Known as Kitty Fink at Soldan High and Washington University, St. Louis-born Kay Thompson began her career as a singer in Hollywood. At MGM she wrote and arranged songs for her films like "The Ziegfeld Follies" and "The Harvey Girls" in 1946. . . . — — Map (db m124555) HM
William Howell Masters began researching sexual function at the Washington University School of Medicine in 1954. Virginia Eshelman Johnson joined him three years later. Their investigation of the physical aspects of sexuality produced some of the . . . — — Map (db m124685) HM
Maya Angelou, born Marguerite Johnson in St. Louis, was raised in segregated rural Arkansas. Her bestselling account of that upbringing, "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings," won critical acclaim in 1970. A leading literary voice of the . . . — — Map (db m124764) HM
A dominant force in Saint Louis University's rise in national stature, Father Paul C. Reinert, S.J. earned three degrees there before joining the faculty in 1944. He was the university's president from 1949-1974 and chancellor from 1974-1990. . . . — — Map (db m124611) HM
Born in China, Peter Raven was a professor at Stanford University before moving to St. Louis in 1971 to head the Missouri Botanical Garden. Under his direction, it became the leading tropical plant research facility in the world. Its staff racing to . . . — — Map (db m124776) HM
Since his first novel was published in 1964, Stanley Lawrence Elkin's literary stature has grown unabated. A New York Times reviewer said, "No serious funny writer in this country can match him." Elkin became an English instructor at Washington . . . — — Map (db m124944) HM
The average poor child in 1860s St. Louis completed three years of school before being forced to work at age 10. Susan Elizabeth Blow addressed that problem by offering education to children earlier. Applying Friedrich Froebel's theories, she opened . . . — — Map (db m124687) HM
Built in 1903 by the Lewis Publishing Company, Edward Gardner Lewis (1868-1950), President
Herbert C. Chivers (1869-1946), Architect
Ralph Chesley Ott (1875-1931), Painter
William T. Bailey (1857-1922), Sculptor
In 1903, the Lewis . . . — — Map (db m144367) HM
Raised at 4608 Tower Grove Place, Thomas Eagleton was only 27 when elected St. Louis Circuit Attorney. He served as Missouri's Attorney General and Lieutenant Governor, won a U.S. Senate seat in 1968, and sought the Vice Presidency in 1972. He was . . . — — Map (db m124534) HM
Photographer Walker Evans was born in St. Louis in his family home at 4468 McPherson. An artist who sought truth and transcendence in ordinary subjects, his most famous work documents the Depression, including the stark portraits of Southern tenant . . . — — Map (db m124561) HM
Unhappy with the prison-like schools of his youth, St. Louis-born architect William B. Ittner devoted his life to improving education through better school design. Appointed St. Louis School Board Commissioner in 1897, he designed open buildings . . . — — Map (db m124543) HM
Grandson of the founder of Ralston-Purina, William Danforth took his family's deep belief in education and public service to heart. After serving as a doctor in the Navy, Danforth returned to St. Louis and joined Washington Unviersity's medical . . . — — Map (db m124626) HM
A consummate author with a philosopher's training, William Gass joined the Washington University faculty in 1969 and received an endowed chair in 1979. Gass introduced audiences to his polished, energetic prose with the 1966 novel "Omensetter's . . . — — Map (db m124634) HM
Coming to St. Louis in 1834 to found a Unitarian church, Minister William Greenleaf Eliot devoted his life to improving his adopted city. Eliot was pivotal in developing the public school system and many other educational and philanthropic . . . — — Map (db m124568) HM
Here on November Ninth, MMII. the brothers of the Beta-Sigma Chapter gathered to mark the one hundredth anniversary of Kappa Sigma at Washington University.
Manet Mansuraque Est.
— — Map (db m147319) HM
The first Olympic Games in the Western Hemisphere were played on this site and in Francis Gymnasium as part of the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair. These Washington University facilities are named for David R. Francis, 1870 alumnus and the St. Louis . . . — — Map (db m147320) HM
A Lincoln University graduate who in 1935 brought a lawsuit against the segregation policies of the University of Missouri. The case was ultimately judged by the United States Supreme Court, who in 1938 ruled that since the State of Missouri did not . . . — — Map (db m191839) HM
After the previous school building burned to the ground in 1892 the Webster Groves School Board built a new two-room frame schoolhouse on Holland Avenue near the ravine. John A. Agee became the first principal and teacher and Lulu Farmer was . . . — — Map (db m191862) HM
1866 - First Baptist. The year after the Civil War ended, 19 African American residents of Webster Groves organized First Baptist Church of Webster Groves. In May of 1866 the land for First Baptist was purchased from William Porter. In November . . . — — Map (db m191871) HM
This building was erected for the Webster College for Boys, founded by Dr. Artemus Bullard. Webster Groves takes its name from this school.
Since 1869 this has been the home of the Edgewood Children's Center. — — Map (db m191868) HM
In 1853 a group of Bloomfield citizens organized the Bloomfield Educational Society for the purpose of establishing a "First Class Literary Institution in Bloomfield." In 1854 the directors purchased land for a building site and in 1855 the Missouri . . . — — Map (db m208055) HM
Bloomfield's first organized school was established in 1842 with classes held in a small log structure, which had served as a Methodist Episcopal church since 1837. In 1853 a group of citizens organized the Bloomfield Education Society and purchased . . . — — Map (db m208221) HM
Patriots Park built by staff and students 2015-2019
This park honors those who sacrificed for our country, while affirming the Patriotic goal of College of the Ozarks:
"To encourage an understanding of American heritage, . . . — — Map (db m246420) HM WM
The main source for information about the Osage Indians' daily life is in the ground beneath us. Like pages of a book, archaeology can reveal stories about who the people were and how they lived.
Information is revealed not only by the . . . — — Map (db m61399) HM
This flagpole and base were erected in 1960 by L. F. Richardson, member of the Board of Trustees of Cottey College, 1949-1957.
Mr. & Mrs. Richardson gave to Cottey College in 1950 its first international scholarship, opening the door for a . . . — — Map (db m44125) HM
"... That was ... a marvel, how they handled those stones with no machinery... That was the hottest summer I have ever lived through... those poor guys got them stones on their shoulders and walked up running planks." -Paul Stokefy, 1987 . . . — — Map (db m209666) HM
Author of "Little House" Books
Little House in the Big Woods - 1932
Farmer Boy - 1933
Little House on the Prairie
On the Banks of Plum Creek - 1937
By the Shores of Silver Lake - 1939
The Long Winter - 1940
Little Town on the . . . — — Map (db m60072) HM
Front
Laura Ingalls Wilder, one of America's best known authors, was born in 1867 near Pepin, Wisconsin. Her "Little House" books were written here on Rocky Ridge Farm, her home for over sixty years.
On July 17, 1894, Laura, her . . . — — Map (db m58371) HM
The Wilder Home 1928-1936
In 1928, after living abroad for several years, Rose Wilder Lane returned to her childhood home on Rocky Ridge Farm. With proceeds from her writings Rose built her parents a modern house. The keys were presented to . . . — — Map (db m60080) HM
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