In this issue, we explore the design process behind the Hesch House donor recognition board, dive into a brief history of lawyer-poet McCune Gill, interview Franz Arzt House rehabber Joy Christensen, and more!
Stuart Keating presents research done by Landmarks volunteer Marci Snow-Perry into all the different locations where Landmarks Association has been located since its start in 1959.
On April 26th, 2016, Kelly Moffitt from St. Louis on the Air interviewed former Landmarks executive director Andrew Weil regarding our “Most Endangered” list we released earlier that year.
Tour the historic Union Avenue Christian Church and learn how a small but dedicated congregation is stewarding this landmark through ongoing restoration and active community use. From arts programming and theatre and opera to social services and outreach, this tour highlights how the building continues to serve as a vibrant hub for both neighborhood and citywide engagement.
Exec. Director Stuart Keating unpacks the 1969 Heritage/St. Louis project, and sits down with board member and former Heritage/St. Louis volunteer Bill Seibert for an interview on the project’s scope and impact.
Amanda Doyle and Cameron Collins, co-authors of the upcoming Forest Park book from Reedy Press, will explore the creation and preservation of Forest Park in St. Louis.
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.
On March 30th, 2023, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch released a a YouTube video showcasing the recently completed rehabilitation of the new Landmarks headquarters.
On March 28, 2022, St. Louis Public Radio published a piece covering the Preservation Board’s decision to provide preliminary approval to the St. Louis Symphony for their plan to renovate and expand Powell Hall.
