I love this building. The Second Bottling Plant at the Lemp Brewery has many interesting facets to it, starting first with its architects. This is the only building on the property that I’ve definitively shown to be designed by the… Continue Reading →
It’s once again time for our monthly Tweetup! Tweetup will occur on Tuesday, October 26th from 6-8pm. As usual we … MoreTweetup At Edibles And Essentials
A new proposal for 5612 Waterman at Clara dubbed The Marigold in the DeBaliviere Place neighborhood goes before the Preservation Board Monday. 4th Street Partners‘s Chris Stritzel of CityScene STL fame is shepherding the project through the entitlement process (getting all the approvals in order), and then plans to hand it off to a developer […]
Seasonal Memories Along about now, my mother would commence fall cleaning. As I recall, it took a lot of elbow grease. To usher in the new season, we’d wash windows, take down screens and put up storm windows, rake leaves, flip mattresses, replace summer rugs with winter ones, change slipcovers, put away white shoes, purses,...
This next stretch of Meramec is interesting; all of the houses are of uniform age, without a single outlier. I suspect they were developed in one single tract. Consulting Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps, the answer becomes obvious; there was a… Continue Reading →
More than six million Americans live with Alzheimer's disease, which is a leading cause of death in the nation. More than 11 million family members and friends provide care to people living with Alzheimer’s and other dementias.
Next year marks 50 years since rates of imprisonment rapidly increased in the U.S. Washington University sociology professor Hedwig Lee explains how people with family members in prison are affected by their time inside.
Businesses in Quincy, Illinois, are growing — and the area’s workforce needs to catch up. Mayor Mike Troup explains how the Quincy City Council aims to attract new workers by offering to help pay their rent or buy a new home.
This article originally ran in the Agribusiness Global on October 20, 2021. The interconnectivity of different transportation modes and need for reliability in both transportation and broadband infrastructure emerged as key ingredients for continued competitiveness of the U.S. agriculture industry during a virtual webinar hosted by the St. Louis AgriBusiness Club on Oct. 7, 2021. The event provided a unique opportunity for dozens […]
SLACO, the Saint Louis Association of Community Organizations, will hold “Brass and Sass” a blues extravaganza and fundraising event on November 5, 2021. Alonzo Townsend will be the host and […]
Author Molly Butterworth discusses how St. Louis fell behind in its efforts to become a hub on the transcontinental railroad — and the history of streetcars and rail travel in and around the Gateway City.
An LPC Presentation; November 14, 3:00 pm The Lafayette Park Conservancy presents A History of the Lafayette Park Fence in its autumn speaker series; Sunday, October 14, 2021 at the…
Jeanette Culpepper, a St. Louisan who championed for families of crime victims and became a tireless advocate for violence prevention, died of Lymphoma on Sunday. She was 73.
Thousands of high school bands from nine states are packing the Dome at America’s Center over the next couple of days for the Bands of America Super Regional Championship. It marks a return to competition for students after being sidelined during the pandemic.
Update Nov 8, 2021 – More/updated renderings The holy grail for Delmar Loop fans may arrive in a few years. Opus Group plans a 14-story building at the southeast corner of Delmar and Skinker in the Skinker DeBaliviere neighborhood. Opus used their in-house architects. Well before and especially since the closure of Church’s Chicken in […]
The October 27th agenda for the St. Louis Board of Adjustment gives some hints about potential development on the Pruitt-Igoe site by Clayco in the Carr Square neighborhood at Jefferson and Carr as reported by the Post-Dispatch in September. StlToday – McKee, Clayco plan office buildings and hotel on Pruitt-Igoe site near new NGA headquarters […]
After decades of grassroots organization and cleanup efforts by volunteers, the Father Dickson Cemetery in Crestwood has been added to the National Register of Historic Places.
One of the best ways to combat climate change is by actually eating the food we buy. This episode of "St. Louis on the Air" talks about how minimizing food waste helps our environment — and our wallets.
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