The Hunt for 1875: Plate #2

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:

(Click image to enlarge)

Surviving buildings from Plate #2:
• Eads Bridge
• 719 N. 1st (commercial; Peper Building)
• 720-722 N. 1st (commercial; First Street Ironworks; the current building may not be the structure seen in Plate #2)

Plate #2:

(Click image to enlarge)

Remaining buildings from Plate #2:

(Click image to enlarge)

The Admiral and the Robert E. Lee, ca. 1970

The Admiral and the Robert E. Lee, 20th century entertainment riverboats, were part of the St. Louis waterfront for decades. Although the Admiral spent much of its recent years as a moored stationary casino, it once plied the waters of the Mississippi as a streamlined dance hall.  The Admiral was scrapped in 2011 after the revocation of its casino license and the deterioration of its hull. The Robert E. Lee, a recreation of an earlier steamboat of the same name, was primarily a floating restaurant until its destruction by fire in 2010 while it awaited renovation as a restaurant in St. Charles on the Missouri.

For video of the burning of the Robert E. Lee:
http://www.ksdk.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=198427

Eads Bridge and Riverfront, ca. 1870

From an eBay listing of a stereographic print originally from the photographers Boehl and Koenig (ca. 1870s). A lovely image of the riverfront with passerby.

Eads Bridge and Riverfront, 1903

From an eBay listing, a photograph of the riverfront, lovely as it was. Here is the view from the levee looking toward the Eads Bridge, published by H.T. Coates in 1903.

Wydown Boulevard, 1917

From Problems of St. Louis (1917). Double streetcar tracks lined by trees down the center of the boulevard on Wydown. Currently the center strip is a walking path.