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- The Saint Louis Art Museum was founded in 1879, at the close of a decade that saw the establishment of art museums in great cities across the eastern half of the United States.
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The museum's origins date to 1879, [3] when the Saint Louis School and Museum of Fine Arts was founded as part of Washington University. [4] The nascent museum was housed in a building Wayman Crow commissioned of Boston architects Peabody and Stearns as a memorial to his son, Wayman Crow Jr.
One of the oldest known archaeological sites in Missouri and the first solid evidence of the coexistence of humans and the American mastodon in eastern North America can be found along the banks of Rock Creek in Kimmswick, Jefferson County, Missouri.
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Aug 27, 2014 · As St. Louis celebrates its 250 th anniversary -- and construction continues on the “park over the highway” that will connect the Arch to the city -- here’s a look back at the national design competition held 67 years ago that Eero Saarinen won with his simple but audacious arch.
Interactive story galleries guide visitors through time from the founding of St. Louis in 1764 to the building of the Gateway Arch, completed in 1965. The new museum describes the westward expansion period of the United States with more perspectives from the cultures involved.
When Missouri became a state in 1821, St. Louis County was created from the boundaries of the former St. Louis subdistrict of the Missouri Territory; St. Louis city existed within the county but was not coterminous with it.
The St. Louis Art Museum was founded in 1879 as the St. Louis School and Museum of Fine Arts, an independent entity within Washington University. The museum was originally located downtown, but later relocated to Forest Park.
