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Date

1988

Description

This photograph looks east on Market St. in St. Louis toward the Gateway Arch. The Gateway Arch was completed in 1965 and was built as a monument to western expansion in the United States.

To the left is the Gateway Mall, an area of open space intended to provide an unobstructed view of the Gateway Arch. The construction of the mall caused several historic buildings to be razed, yet in 1986 the Gateway One building was built in place despite its criticisms that it caused the very problems that lead to the destruction of the older buildings.

Also visible in this photograph is the final stages of construction on One Metropolitan Square, completed in 1989. This building is the second tallest in Missouri and the tallest in St. Louis.

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http://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=91954

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Metropolitan_Square

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gateway_Arch

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This object from the Chester E. Smolski photographic slides and publications, housed by the Rhode Island College Special Collections, and any of its digital surrogates are the intellectual property of Rhode Island College. This digital object is protected by copyright and/or related rights. The digital material presented here is licensed with a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. This content can be used, shared, or adapted for educational and scholarly purposes. For permissions to use this item please contact digitalcommons@ric.edu. All uses must include appropriate attribution.

Creator 1 Role

Photographer

Creator 2 Dates

1910-1961

Creator 2 Role

Designer

Creator 3 Dates

1925-1993

Creator 3 Role

Structural Engineer

Recommended Citation

Chester E. Smolski photographic slides and publications, MSS-0041, Special Collections, James P. Adams Library, Rhode Island College.

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Keywords

arches, architecture, downtown, malls, monuments, Gateway Mall, Missouri

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