On June 18th, 2015, Landmarks Association published a video summarizing the new vibrancy of The Grove neighborhood. The video was produced as a small series highlighting specific St. Louis neighborhoods with narration by former executive director Andrew Weil.
Nick Sacco, historian and curator, will share an exploration of pre-Civil War St. Louis through the daguerreotype photographs of Thomas Easterly that are housed at the Missouri Historical Society. No other photographer in St. Louis captured the city’s built landscape of the 1840s and 1850s quite like Easterly.
Amanda Clark, public historian with the Missouri Historical Society, will trace the cycles of reinvention that have defined Laclede’s Landing by diving into how the neighborhood’s fortunes have shifted over time as well as how its story mirrors the evolving challenges of historic preservation today.
