This past July it became known that CVS wanted to purchase the property with the intent of demolishing the building to construct a new building. Without being in a Preservation Review District or individually listed on the National Register the building lacks any protection and its future is unknown.
Do you know which print shop on Cherokee street is housed is a former vaudeville theater? Or why the area was once known as a “shelter for desperate, lawless vagabonds” during the 1830’s? You can find out during three historic walking tours led by Landmarks Association during the Cherokee Print League’s 4th Annual Holiday Sale! Be sure and come to this event featuring local artists at several venues, galleries and print shops on Cherokee Street. It will be a blast!
Update on the Special Session of the Missouri Congress concernig Historic Tax Credits from the Alliance for Investment, Jobs and Historic Preservation.
The Board of Alderman just called our office with news regarding the second reading of Board Bill 118 today.
Garfield School (1936) in the Benton Park West Neighborhood is moving closer to being purchased and adaptively re-used by Peter and Paul Community Services.
Landmarks is having a sale on all of our publications. Stop by our office at 911 Washington Avenue, Suite 170 or call us at 314-421-6474 to order one today.
Landmarks is selling a limited printing of a set of 6 different St. Louis themed postcards originally produced in the 1950’s.
Landmarks with other national, regional and local organizations prepared a statement concerning the recent report finding Cupples Warehouse 7 structurally unsound.
Legislative update concerning the special session on September 20, 2011.
Father Lawrence Biondi’s September 2011 message to returning faculty, staff and students lists recent property acquisitions, which includes the former Pevely Dairy Company headquarters at 1001 S. Grand.
