St. Louis 



THE GROUP PLAN 



Spurred on by the need of new public buildings and by the success of Cleve- 

 land, the city of St. Louis has appointed an official commission which has prepared 

 a plan opening a parkway between Thirteenth and Fourteenth Streets extending 

 from Olive Street to Clark Avenue, thus forming a municipal court on which the 

 recently constructed City Hall will face. Opposite this it is proposed to place the 

 new Four Courts and at one end the Public Library. Such a space will provide 

 sites for the public and semi-public buildings needed in St. Louis for many years. 



THE OUTER PARK SYSTEM 



St. Louis has recognized the advisability of connecting her scattered parks into 

 a system, by appointing a commission charged with studying the question. They 

 propose the improvement and extension of the historic Kingshighway so as to afford 

 not only a pleasure-drive but a convenient connection between Carondelet, Forest 

 and O'Fallon Parks, extending even to proposed parks at the extreme ends of 

 the city's frontage on the Mississippi River. The proposed parkway will tie together 

 not only the parks but several important residential districts now badly connected. 

 The estimated cost of these improvements is $2,000,000. 



A striking suggestion included in the report of the Commission are the alterna- 

 tive plans for a genuinely attractive viaduct to carry to Kingshighway across the 

 railroads. The purely utilitarian bridges that heretofore have generally been con- 

 structed in this country, with but few isolated exceptions, are beginning to give way 

 to bridges in which beauty is considered as well as carrying capacity. To secure a 

 beautiful bridge, it will not do first to determine its construction from a purely 

 engineering point of view and then to spend such and such a sum in trying to 

 tack beauty on to it. As the beauty of the city is dependent upon its city plan, 

 so the beauty of a bridge is dependent upon its basic plan. 



The present park acreage of St. Louis is 2,183. No parkways have been con- 

 structed as yet by the city. 



The Kingshighway will vary from 100 to 300 feet. Owing to varying phys- 

 ical conditions, the same plan of development is not preserved throughout. The 

 Kingshighway, combined with broader parkways and comparatively newer boule- 

 vard spaces, will make a total length of approximately twenty-five miles. 



For further information regarding the Group Plan of St. Louis, apply to Wm. G. Eames, 

 Lincoln Trust Building, St, Louis, Mo. 



For the Outer Park System, George E. Kessler, Landscape Architect, 523 Frisco Building, St. 

 Louis, Mo. 



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