by Sherry Sissac | Feb 17, 2014
Material: Trees Owner: City of St. Louis
by Sherry Sissac | Feb 17, 2014
The tablet represents Monroe, Livingston, and Marbois signing the Louisiana Purchase Treaty on April 30, 1803. Monroe is on the left, behind the chair; Livingston is seated; and Marbois is signing the treaty. The tablet was donated by the Louisiana Purchase Exposition...
by Sherry Sissac | Feb 17, 2014
In 1900, the United States Government presented the City of St. Louis with a gift — a Spanish cannon titled Examinador that had most likely been captured during the Spanish-American War. An article in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch from April 1901 states that the...
by Sherry Sissac | Feb 14, 2014
The original Forest Park bandstand, or music pagoda, was a wooden structure that stood on an island in Pagoda Lake. It was built about the time the park was dedicated in 1876. Mary J. Rankin donated statues representing the four seasons in 1886. The bandstand was...
by Sherry Sissac | Feb 14, 2014
Year Completed: 1964 Owner: City of St. Louis Donor: Readers of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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