St. Louis Attractions

ABOUT ST. LOUIS: "MUST SEE" ATTRACTIONS

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Bissell Mansion. The Bissell Mansion is probably the oldest house in the City, and today houses a dinner theatre with a great river view.
http://www.bissellmansiontheatre.com/
Black World History Museum. When you visit St. Louis' Black World History Museum, be prepared to revisit the earliest moments of Africans in America. This small, independent museum features a scale-model section of a slave ship and a reconstructed slave cabin, as well as many excellent permanent exhibits in wax.
http://www.digitalcity.com/stlouis/entertainment/venue.adp?sbid=111722229
Clemens House and Columbia Brewery. This historic district in the St. Louis Place neighborhood includes the home of Mark Twain's uncle James Clemens, and a large brewery complex now converted to apartments.
http://stlcin.missouri.org/history/structdetail.cfm?Master_ID=1317
Crown Candy Kitchen. Crown Candy is the ultimate icon of the Near Northside. Since 1913, it has been a neighborhood and, now, regional draw for its ice cream, candy and sandwiches. Everyday, it is crowded with downtown lunch seekers.
http://www.crowncandykitchen.com/
Fairgrounds Park. The historic bear pits are a reminder of the St. Louis Agricultural and Mechanical Fair held here in the 1800s, and the Fairgrounds Park Pool is a popular summertime spot.
http://stlouis.missouri.org/citygov/parks/parks_div/fairground.html
Friedens United Church of Christ. Friedens United Church of Christ, built in 1908 at its current location of 19th and Newhouse Streets, is an important anchor of the Hyde Park community. The affiliated Friedens Haus across the street is a popular community center active in community revitalization efforts.
http://exhibits.slpl.lib.mo.us/germanamerican/data/SiteDetail240012394.asp
Gateway Middle School. When opened in 1994, this was the first new elementary and first new middle school built for about two decades in St. Louis. The complex, which includes the Michael School for the Orthopedically Handicapped and is also called the Samuel Shepard Educational Park, includes three schools with a nicely landscaped courtyard, and colorful exterior decorations. It rose from the former site of the infamous Pruitt-Igoe public housing complex.
http://locations.slps.org/location.asp?RecordID=5C5D5C&LocName=Gateway%20Middle%20School
Giant Vess Soda Bottle. Originally placed in 1953 at the Hampton at Gravois bus loop, the Vess "Billion Bubble Beverage" advertising device stands today on N. 6th Street near St. Patrick Center, after being rediscovered in storage in 1989. It is now planned to be the symbolic heart of the "Bottle District", an entertainment district to be developed in the surrounding area just north of downtown.
http://stlcin.missouri.org/history/structdetail.cfm?Master_ID=2210
Grace Hill Neighborhood Services. Grace Hill, formerly a Methodist church, has been an important settlement house in the Near Northside for nearly 100 years. Its campus is one of three 'circles' designed into the Old North St. Louis neighborhood. The Grace Hill circle was meant for a church, symbolic of spiritual health. Jackson Park, the next circle, has a ballfield symbolic of physical health. Finally, Webster Middle School occupies the southernmost circle, symbolic of intellectual health.
http://www.gracehill.org/
Herbert Hoover Boys & Girls Club. The Club is located at 2901 North Grand on the site of historic Sportsman's Park. It is part of a nationwide federation of youth-serving agencies of the Boys and Girls Clubs of America. It hosts a branch of the Community Music School of Webster University, community dental services, computer classes, and various athletic activities.
http://www.hhbgc.org/
Hyde Park. Hyde Park is the centerpiece of the historic surrounding neighborhood named for it. The lake and the fire station at Blair and Salisbury are important landmarks in the park and for the neighborhood.
http://stlouis.missouri.org/citygov/parks/parks_div/Hyde.html
Kulage House. This private home in the College Hill neighborhood is very historic and overlooks the Mississippi. It was built in 1906 for the Kulage family, brick manufacturers, and includes an elaborate pipe organ.
http://exhibits.slpl.lib.mo.us/germanamerican/data/SiteDetail240012423.asp
Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church. This historic Hyde Park neighborhood church overlooks Interstate 70 and is stunningly lighted at night.
http://www.holytrinityparish.com/
Mount Grace Convent. This College Hill cloister is home to the "Pink Sisters," officially known as the Holy Spirit Adoration Sisters, nuns who rarely leave the convent but are always dressed in pink habits. Many St. Louisans ask for prayers from the Pink Sisters.
http://www.mountgraceconvent.org/
Neighborhood Gardens Apartments. One of the first subsidized apartment complexes built, it was actually built and operated privately. Now mostly vacant, its garden-style design is now considered far superior to the later high-rises built nearby such as Cochran Gardens, Vaughn and Pruitt-Igoe.
http://stlcin.missouri.org/history/structdetail.cfm?Master_ID=1316
North 14th Street Pedestrian Mall. Although now somewhat in disrepair, this two-block shopping strip across St. Louis Avenue from Crown Candy Kitchen was once a bustling vibrant district. Unfortunately, the attempt to revive it by installing the current pedestrian mall in the 1970s failed. The buildings remain beautiful 19th-Century commercial structures, despite their current disrepair.
http://www.eco-absence.org/stl/14th/
O'Fallon Park. This park has great views of the Mississippi River and a recently renovated boathouse and lake.
http://stlouis.missouri.org/citygov/parks/parks_div/o'fallon.html
Piekutowski's European Style Sausage. Piekutowski's is a reminder of the Slavic roots of the North Florissant Ave. area. It still offers a variety of sausages to its customers.
http://www.saucemagazine.com/drill.php?EstID=2558
Red Water Tower. This Tudor-style water tower on Bissell Ave. is one of three in St. Louis. Only seven standpipe-style water towers remain anywhere in the United States. There was not, as some think, a water tank on or in these towers. Instead, they were large, tall pipes designed as pressure releases for the newly developed water treatment system in the 1890s.
http://www.stlwater.com/watertowers.html
Shrine of St. Joseph. Reportedly the site of a miracle, the Shrine is at the heart of the Columbus Square neighborhood. A flea market operates every Friday, and the annual Festival of St. Joseph draws a crowd from throughout the region.
http://www.shrineofstjoseph.org
Spruill's International Catering. More than just a catering company, Spruill's also serves as a jazz and blues nightclub.
http://www.spruillsinternationalcatering.com
St. Louis Avenue Bathhouse. When indoor plumbing was still expensive or unavailable to most St. Louisans in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries, people flocked to bathhouses like this one on St. Louis Ave. near 13th St. It is today a storage building/garage.
St. Nicholas Catholic Church. St. Nicholas is the oldest African-American parish in the St. Louis area, dating to 1865.
http://www.catholic-forum.com/churches/127stnicholas/
St. Patrick Catholic Church and St. Patrick Center. St. Patrick Church serves the same parish as the Shrine of St. Joseph, but is a new facility. The St. Patrick's Center is a large and expanding homeless services organization which operates The Shamrock Club, a free lunch for many of the homeless, several shelters and transitional housing facilities, and McMurphy's Grill, a downtown restaurant where the servers are homeless clients in training for employment.
http://www.archstl.org/parishes/172a.shtml
St. Stanislaus Kostka Catholic Church. This historic Polish congregation still serves parishoners from around the region from its sanctuary near the new Murphy Park community on 20th Street, despite an ongoing dispute with the St. Louis Archdiocese.
http://www.archstl.org/parishes/179.shtml
Sts. Cyril & Methodius National Polish Catholic Church. This church, although not serving a geographically-defined parish, is an important icon of the Polish heritage of the Near North Side.
http://www.pncc.org/parish_webpage.asp?parish_id=112
Sts. Teresa and Bridget Catholic Church. The landmark church at N. Grand at North Market serves the JeffVanderLou community through social service programs, and maintains its attractive sanctuary. The current name reflects the merger with the former St. Bridget of Erin parish at Jefferson and Cole in 2003.
http://www.ststb.org/
White Water Tower. Even more prominent than the Red Water Tower, the White Water Tower is in the middle of East Grand Ave., and is shaped like a Corinthian column. Reputedly, it is the world's tallest Corinthian column.
http://www.stlwater.com/watertowers.html

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