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St. Louis (/ s eɪ n t ˈ l uː ɪ s, s ən t-/ saynt LOO-iss, sənt-) is an independent city in the U.S. state of Missouri.It is located near the confluence of the Mississippi and the Missouri rivers.
Map of St Louis in 1885. 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.
Gateway Arch. / 38.6245; -90.1847. The Gateway Arch is a 630-foot-tall (192 m) monument in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. Clad in stainless steel and built in the form of a weighted catenary arch, [5] it is the world's tallest arch [4] and Missouri's tallest accessible structure.
Geography of St. Louis. St. Louis is located at 38°38′53″N 90°12′44″W. [1] The city is built primarily on bluffs and terraces that rise 100–200 feet (30–61 m) above the western banks of the Mississippi River, just south of the Missouri -Mississippi confluence. Much of the area is a fertile and gently rolling prairie that features ...
The Missouri Botanical Garden is a botanical garden located at 4344 Shaw Boulevard in St. Louis, Missouri. It is also known informally as Shaw's Garden for founder and philanthropist Henry Shaw . Its herbarium , with more than 6.6 million specimens, [3] is the second largest in North America, behind that of the New York Botanical Garden .
1962–65 Gateway Arch. NRHP reference No. 66000941 [1] Added to NRHP. October 15, 1966. Gateway Arch National Park is an American national park located in St. Louis, Missouri, near the starting point of the Lewis and Clark Expedition . In its initial form as a national memorial, it was established in 1935 to commemorate: the Louisiana Purchase ...
Designated NHL. December 30, 1970 [2] St. Louis Union Station is a National Historic Landmark and former train station in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. At its 1894 opening, the station was the largest in the world that had tracks and passenger service areas all on one level. Traffic peaked at 100,000 people a day in the 1940s. [3]
City Museum is a museum whose exhibits consist largely of repurposed architectural and industrial objects, housed in the former International Shoe building in the Washington Avenue Loft District of St. Louis, Missouri, United States. Opened in October 1997, the museum attracted more than 700,000 visitors in 2010. [1]