The Hunt for 1875: Plate #10

I have seen the Compton and Dry pictorial St. Louis used for a variety of historical purposes, but I have yet to see a full comparison of the pictorial St. Louis in 1875 with what remains today. Each day a new plate will appear in the order of their appearance in the Compton and Dry map, followed by an edited version in which the remaining buildings (as far as I can tell) are highlighted in blue. All images are from the Library of Congress downloadable map.

Plate index:

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Surviving buildings from Plate #10:
• 3327 S. 7th (residential; rear of building only)
• 3228 S. 9th (residential)
• 3230 S. 9th (residential)
• 3316 S. 9th (residential)
• 800 Pestalozzi (Lyon School part of Anheuser-Busch Brewery complex)
• 3100 S. Broadway (Lyon Monument in Lyon Park)
• 3200 S. 2nd (government; several buildings part of the NGIA)

Plate #10:

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Remaining buildings from Plate #10:

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Franklin and Grand Avenues, 1908

From Comfort Stations for St. Louis (1908). Again from the Civic League, a view of what might have been. Here is the intersection of Grand Boulevard and Franklin Avenue, slightly north of Grand Center. The Civic League suggested a mighty monument to St. Ange (Captain Louis St. Ange de Bellerive), the first French commandant of St. Louis. St. Ange established a proper government at St. Louis in 1766 when he arrived, and he created the first official system of land grants for the area. Interestingly, underneath the monument to St. Ange would have been a system of lavatories. The message being sent by putting St. Ange atop a large public toilet is, at the very least, intriguing.


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