Midtown St. Louis, the Glossary
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72 relations: African Americans, American Civil War, Architecture of St. Louis, Art Deco, Asian Americans, Atlanta, Biophilic design, Brad Cloepfil, C. Howard Crane, Camp Jackson affair, Claiborne Fox Jackson, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, Continental Life Building, Daniel M. Frost, Eames & Young, Economic development, Fox Theatre (St. Louis), Georgia (U.S. state), Grand Boulevard (St. Louis), Grand Center Arts District, St. Louis, Henry Hobson Richardson, Hispanic and Latino Americans, Infill, Isaac H. Lionberger House, KETC, Krog Street Market, KSDK, Lee Enterprises, List of neighborhoods of St. Louis, Midtown Historic District (St. Louis), Missouri, Missouri Volunteer Militia, Mixed-use development, Movie palace, Nathaniel Lyon, National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places, National Register of Historic Places listings in St. Louis north and west of downtown, National Register of Historic Places listings in St. Louis south and west of downtown, NBC, Neoclassical architecture, North American Numbering Plan, Paul C. Reinert, Ponce City Market, Powell Hall, Preston J. Bradshaw, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, Saint Louis University, Saint Louis University Museum of Art, Samuel Cupples House, ... Expand index (22 more) »
African Americans
African Americans, also known as Black Americans or Afro-Americans, are an ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from any of the Black racial groups of Africa.
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American Civil War
The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union.
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Architecture of St. Louis
The architecture of St.
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Art Deco
Art Deco, short for the French Arts décoratifs, is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design, that first appeared in Paris in the 1910s (just before World War I), and flourished in the United States and Europe during the 1920s to early 1930s.
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Asian Americans
Asian Americans are Americans of Asian ancestry (including naturalized Americans who are immigrants from specific regions in Asia and descendants of those immigrants).
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Atlanta
Atlanta is the capital and most populous city in the U.S. state of Georgia.
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Biophilic design
Biophilic design is a concept used within the building industry to increase occupant connectivity to the natural environment through the use of direct nature, indirect nature, and space and place conditions.
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Brad Cloepfil
Brad Cloepfil (born 1956) is an American architect, educator and principal of Allied Works Architecture of Portland, Oregon and New York City.
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C. Howard Crane
Charles Howard Crane (August 13, 1885 – August 14, 1952) was an American architect who was primarily active in Detroit, Michigan.
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Camp Jackson affair
The Camp Jackson affair, also known as the Camp Jackson massacre, occurred during the American Civil War on May 10, 1861, when a volunteer Union Army regiment captured a unit of secessionists at Camp Jackson, outside the city of St. Louis, in the divided slave state of Missouri.
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Claiborne Fox Jackson
Claiborne Fox Jackson (April 4, 1806 – December 6, 1862) was an American politician of the Democratic Party in Missouri.
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Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis
The Contemporary Art Museum St.
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Continental Life Building
The Continental-Life Building, also known as the Continental Building, is an Art Deco skyscraper in St. Louis, Missouri, United States, which was completed in 1930.
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Daniel M. Frost
Daniel Marsh Frost (August 9, 1823 – October 29, 1900) was a former United States Army officer who became a brigadier general in the Missouri Volunteer Militia (MVM) and the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.
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Eames & Young
Eames and Young was an American architecture firm based in St. Louis, Missouri, active nationally, and responsible for several buildings on the National Register of Historic Places.
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Economic development
In the economics study of the public sector, economic and social development is the process by which the economic well-being and quality of life of a nation, region, local community, or an individual are improved according to targeted goals and objectives.
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Fox Theatre (St. Louis)
The Fox Theatre, a former movie palace, is a performing arts center located at 527 N. Grand Blvd.
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Georgia (U.S. state)
Georgia, officially the State of Georgia, is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States.
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Grand Boulevard (St. Louis)
Grand Boulevard is a major, seven to five-lane wide, north-south thoroughfare that runs through the center of St. Louis, Missouri.
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Grand Center Arts District, St. Louis
The Grand Center Arts District is located in the Midtown St. Louis Historic District (on the National Register of Historic Places) north of the Saint Louis University campus. Midtown St. Louis and Grand Center Arts District, St. Louis are neighborhoods in St. Louis.
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Henry Hobson Richardson
Henry Hobson Richardson, FAIA (September 29, 1838 – April 27, 1886) was an American architect, best known for his work in a style that became known as Richardsonian Romanesque.
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Hispanic and Latino Americans
Hispanic and Latino Americans (Estadounidenses hispanos y latinos; Estadunidenses hispânicos e latinos) are Americans of full or partial Spanish and/or Latin American background, culture, or family origin.
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Infill
In urban planning, infill, or in-fill, is the rededication of land in an urban environment, usually open-space, to new construction.
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Isaac H. Lionberger House
The Isaac H. Lionberger House at 3630 Grandel Square in Midtown St. Louis, Missouri, is the last private residence designed by noted American architect Henry Hobson Richardson.
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KETC
KETC (channel 9) is a PBS member television station in St. Louis, Missouri, United States, owned by St.
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Krog Street Market
Krog Street Market is a mixed-use development in Atlanta, located along the BeltLine trail at Edgewood Avenue in Inman Park which opened in Summer 2014.
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KSDK
KSDK (channel 5) is a television station in St. Louis, Missouri, United States, affiliated with NBC and owned by Tegna Inc. The station's studios are located on Market Street in Downtown St. Louis, and its transmitter is located in Shrewsbury, Missouri.
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Lee Enterprises
Lee Enterprises, Inc. is a publicly traded American media company.
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List of neighborhoods of St. Louis
The City of St. Louis officially recognizes 79 neighborhoods within its limits. Midtown St. Louis and List of neighborhoods of St. Louis are neighborhoods in St. Louis.
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Midtown Historic District (St. Louis)
The Midtown Historic District in St. Louis, Missouri is a historic district that was listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 1978.
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Missouri
Missouri is a landlocked state in the Midwestern region of the United States.
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Missouri Volunteer Militia
The Missouri Volunteer Militia (MVM) was the state militia organization of Missouri, before the formation of the Missouri State Guard in the American Civil War.
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Mixed-use development
Mixed use is a type of urban development, urban design, urban planning and/or a zoning classification that blends multiple uses, such as residential, commercial, cultural, institutional, or entertainment, into one space, where those functions are to some degree physically and functionally integrated, and that provides pedestrian connections.
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Movie palace
A movie palace (or picture palace in the United Kingdom) is a large, elaborately decorated movie theater built from the 1910s to the 1940s.
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Nathaniel Lyon
Nathaniel Lyon (July 14, 1818 – August 10, 1861) was a United States Army officer who was the first Union general to be killed in the American Civil War.
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National Park Service
The National Park Service (NPS) is an agency of the United States federal government, within the U.S. Department of the Interior.
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National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic value".
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National Register of Historic Places listings in St. Louis north and west of downtown
This is a list of properties and historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places within the city limits of St.
National Register of Historic Places listings in St. Louis south and west of downtown
This is a list of properties and historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places within the city limits of St. Louis, Missouri, south of Interstate 64 and west of Downtown St. Louis.
NBC
The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the NBC Entertainment division of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast.
Neoclassical architecture
Neoclassical architecture, sometimes referred to as Classical Revival architecture, is an architectural style produced by the Neoclassical movement that began in the mid-18th century in Italy, France and Germany.
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North American Numbering Plan
The North American Numbering Plan (NANP) is a telephone numbering plan for twenty-five regions in twenty countries, primarily in North America and the Caribbean.
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Paul C. Reinert
Rev.
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Ponce City Market
Ponce City Market is a mixed-use development located in a former Sears catalogue facility in Atlanta, with national and local retail anchors, restaurants, a food hall, boutiques and offices, and residential units.
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Powell Hall
Powell Hall (formerly known as the St. Louis Theater and Powell Symphony Hall) is the home of the St. Louis Symphony.
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Preston J. Bradshaw
Preston J. Bradshaw (1884–1952) was one of the most eminent architects of St. Louis, Missouri, during the 1920s.
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Pulitzer Arts Foundation
Pulitzer Arts Foundation is an art museum in St. Louis, Missouri, that presents special exhibitions and public programs.
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Saint Louis University
Saint Louis University (SLU) is a private Jesuit research university with campuses in St. Louis, Missouri, United States, and Madrid, Spain.
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Saint Louis University Museum of Art
The Saint Louis University Museum of Art is the formal art museum for Saint Louis University.
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Samuel Cupples House
The Samuel Cupples House is a historic mansion in St. Louis, Missouri, constructed from 1888 to 1890 by Samuel Cupples.
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Second Empire style
Second Empire style, also known as the Napoleon III style, is a highly eclectic style of architecture and decorative arts originating in the Second French Empire.
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Shrinking city
Shrinking cities or urban depopulation are dense cities that have experienced a notable population loss.
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Social connection is the experience of feeling close and connected to others.
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St. Louis
St.
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St. Louis Arsenal
The St.
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St. Louis Board of Aldermen
The St.
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St. Louis Magazine
St.
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch
The St.
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St. Louis Symphony Orchestra
The St.
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Tadao Ando
is a Japanese autodidact architect whose approach to architecture and landscape was categorized by architectural historian Francesco Dal Co as "critical regionalism".
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The Sheldon
The Sheldon, designed by the noted 1904 World’s Fair architect Louis C. Spiering, was built in 1912 as the home of the Ethical Society of St.
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Times Square
Times Square is a major commercial intersection, tourist destination, entertainment hub, and neighborhood in the Midtown Manhattan section of New York City.
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Townhouse
A townhouse, townhome, town house, or town home, is a type of terraced housing.
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U.S. state
In the United States, a state is a constituent political entity, of which there are 50.
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Union (American Civil War)
The Union, colloquially known as the North, refers to the states that remained loyal to the United States after eleven Southern slave states seceded to form the Confederate States of America (CSA), also known as the Confederacy or South, during the American Civil War.
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Union Army
During the American Civil War, the United States Army, the land force that fought to preserve the collective Union of the states, was often referred to as the Union Army, the Grand Army of the Republic, the Federal Army, or the Northern Army.
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United States Department of the Interior
The United States Department of the Interior (DOI) is an executive department of the U.S. federal government responsible for the management and conservation of most federal lands and natural resources.
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Urban renewal
Urban renewal (also called urban regeneration in the United Kingdom and urban redevelopment in the United States) is a program of land redevelopment often used to address urban decay in cities.
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White Americans
White Americans (also referred to as European Americans) are Americans who identify as white people.
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William B. Ittner
William Butts Ittner (September 4, 1864 – 1936) was an American architect in St. Louis, Missouri.
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World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
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ZIP Code
A ZIP Code (an acronym for Zone Improvement Plan) is a system of postal codes used by the United States Postal Service (USPS).
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midtown_St._Louis
Also known as Midtown Saint Louis, Midtown St Louis, Midtown St. Louis, Missouri, Midtown, Saint Louis, Midtown, St Louis, Midtown, St. Louis.
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