SAINT LOUIS 



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SAINT LOUIS 



The Missouri Botanical Garden, better known 

 as Shaw's Garden, ranks first in the United 

 States and next to the Kew Gardens, in Lon- 

 don, as an educational botanical garden. Its 

 library contains more than 18,500 books, 22,000 

 pamphlets and a considerable number of manu- 

 script volumes. The Arboretum contains speci- 

 mens of trees from various parts of the world, 

 and an extensive collection of fruit trees and 

 plants is housed in the Fruiticetum. This 

 garden and Tower Grove Park were the gifts 

 of Henry Shaw, a Saint Louis citizen, who was 

 deeply interested in plants; his burial place in 

 the garden is marked by an imposing sar- 

 cophagus. Lafayette, Lyon and Compton Hill 

 Reservoir parks are among the smaller recrea- 

 tion spots and playgrounds. In some one of the 

 parks a concert may be heard any night dur- 

 ing the warm season, as Saint Louis is a music- 

 loving community. Bellefontaine and Calvary 

 are the largest and most beautiful of the city's 

 cemeteries; the latter is the burial place of 

 General William Tecumseh Sherman. 



No city in the entire Union surpasses Saint 

 Louis in the beauty of its exclusive residential 

 districts, called "places;" the magnificent homes 

 and spacious grounds of these sections are a 

 tribute to the finest skill of the architect and the 

 landscape gardener. Westmoreland, Portland, 

 Kingsbury and Vandeventer are among the 

 most noted of the "places," but Lindell Ter- 

 race and Longfellow, Hawthorne, Lindell and 

 Foreyth boulevards rival them in beauty. The 

 huge apartment buildings common to most large 

 cities are noticeably scarce in Saint Louis, de- 

 tached houses and duplex buildings being the 

 rule. 



Reference to the residential parts of Saint 

 Louis can scarcely be made without including 

 the handsome estates and beautiful suburbs 

 adjoining the city on the west, which contain 

 the homes of some of the financiers of the 

 city ; besides these, there are attractive suburbs 

 northwest and southwest where large numbers 

 of city workers live. East Saint Louis (111.), 

 the "little sister" city, is on the opposite bank 

 of the river. Twelve miles south of Saint Louis 

 is Jefferson Barracks, a United States military 

 post. At the Chain of Rocks, north of the city 

 and on the river, the largest sand filtration 

 plant in the United States was opened in 191-6. 



Buildings. Among prominent public build- 

 ings are the city hall, an imposing $2,000,000 

 structure in the center of Washington Park ; the 

 IK \v municipal building, the Federal building. 

 tin main post office, opposite Union Station 



(the downtown branch being in the Federal 

 building), and the Coliseum, with a seating ca- 

 pacity of 15,000. The new Saint Louis Cathe- 

 dral, on Lindell Boulevard, is by far the most 

 imposing religious structure; several years will 

 be required to finish the interior marbles and 

 mosaics, and when completed the building will 

 have cost $3,000,000. Saint John's Method- 

 ist Episcopal, Pilgrim Congregational, First 

 Christian Science, Second Baptist and Second 

 Presbyterian churches and the Jewish Temple 

 are among the modern handsome churches of 

 the city. Christ Church (Episcopal Cathedral) 

 is an artistic old structure containing some of 

 the finest stone carvings in the United States. 

 Saints Peter and Paul Church is the oldest 

 German Roman Catholic church in the city; 

 it was built in 1848. 



The Railway Exchange building, which cov- 

 ers an entire, square, is one of the largest office 

 buildings in the world. Union Trust, Frisco, 

 Century, Missouri-Lincoln Trust, Wright and 

 Fuller-ton buildings, and those of the Bank of 



THE METROPOLITAN DISTRICT 

 i nt Ferdinand 6. East Saint Louis 



2. Central 7. Stitea 



3. KirkwoodClty 8. Canteen 



4. Carondelet 9. Nameoki 

 6. Centerville 10. Venice 



Commerce, Third National and Boatmen's 

 banks are among the conspicuous business 

 structures. The hotels of Saint Louis .are suf- 

 ficient in number and equipment to permit the 

 city to act as host to the largest conventions; 

 the best known are the Stadtlcr, Jefferson, 

 Planters, Warwick, Maryland, Marquette, Ter- 

 minal, American and Washington. Saint Louis, 

 University, Racquet, Liederkranz, Columbian, 

 Mercantile and Missouri Athletic are the prin- 

 1 clubs of the city, the last two being in 

 the downtown section. The Women's Club and 

 the Wednesday Club (women's) own their re- 

 handsomc quarters. Log Cabin, Saint 



