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St. Louis history that doesn't get memorialized — but shouldn't be forgotten
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The unlikely survival of the Becker-Anthes House (opens the original)
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Before Lafayette Square had its Victorian mansions, it had this stone house. Today, the Becker-Anthes House at 1111 Missouri Avenue has no roof, and newer buildings crowd around its surviving limestone walls. It’s easy to mistake it for an old outbuilding. In fact, it is one of the neighborhood’s earliest surviving homes.Its walls have stood through the area’s change from scattered farms and workshops to city streets, industry, and an affluent neighborhood. The people who lived here included Ger
Elizabeth Keckley, Pruitt-Igoe, and the Stories We Choose to Remember (opens the original)
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Some stories survive as a single image.Elizabeth Keckley is often remembered as Mary Todd Lincoln’s formerly enslaved dressmaker and confidante. Pruitt-Igoe survives in footage of buildings collapsing into clouds of dust.Both images are real. Neither tells us nearly enough.At the September 17 Unseen STL History Talk, Naysa Adams returned Keckley to the St. Louis community where she supported a household of 17, built a successful business, and purchased freedom for herself and her son. Shawntay N
Overcrowded from the Beginning (opens the original)
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Recently, I started a Facebook series about the social institutions along Arsenal Road. When I got to the Poor House, a complex with two buildings still standing, I did a deep dive into the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. As typically happens, I ended up with way more information than I could fit into a simple Facebook post, so here you go!The imposing brick building on Arsenal is an artifact from a very different St. Louis, hidden in plain sight.Its long rear porches overlook what was once an institut
Unseen STL History Talks September 2026 (opens the original)
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What do we remember about a place, and whose stories get lost?This month’s Unseen STL History Talks explores two very different chapters of Black history in St. Louis. Pruitt-Igoe remains one of the city’s most recognizable stories, yet photos of its demolition often overshadow the people who lived there. Elizabeth Keckley became a celebrated dressmaker and confidante to Mary Todd Lincoln, but fewer people know that she spent nearly 12 years in St. Louis, purchasing her freedom for herself and h
From Stouffer’s to Millennium: A Landmark Leaves the Skyline (opens the original)
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The restaurant turned above St. Louis. Now the hotel beneath it is disappearing.In 1969, Stouffer’s Riverfront Inn opened as a shiny new symbol of civic leaders’ ambitions to remake downtown St. Louis. With the new Gateway Arch across the street, guests arrived for a glamorous, invitation-only celebration, then rode to the top of the 28-story tower to experience the hotel’s crown jewel: St. Louis’s only revolving restaurant. As they dined, the city slowly moved past their windows.More than 50 ye
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