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How Would You Map the Monuments of St. Louis?” MONROE ELSAH FOSTER GODFREY MORO POINT ALTON WOOD RIVER FORT RUSSELL RIVERS LEWIS AND CLARK r e v i R WENTZVILLE i p p i s s i s s i Monument Lab Pulitzer Arts Foundation M M isso Katy Trail SPANISH LAKE uri River 1044 LAKE LINDENWOOD unique places mapped How would you map the ST. LOUIS O’FALLON These 42 places were featured on more than 14 maps (ordered by frequency) FLORISSANT ST. FERDINAND The Gateway Arch Ted Drewes Frozen Custard The Muny CHOUTEAU Mississippi River Highway 64/40 Cherokee Street monuments of St. Louis? The Mississippi was mentioned or drawn Forest Park NORTHWESTSaint Louis Science Center East St. Louis by 173 mapmakers. The mighty river Saint Louis Zoo Highway 44 Kingshighway Blvd sustains the city and is at the center ZUMBEHL Monument Lab researchers gathered 750 hand-drawn maps from St. Louis of its history—enabling agriculture, Tower Grove Park Missouri River Central West End EDWARDSVILLE transport, and industry, allowing Saint Louis Art Museum Pulitzer Arts Foundation Enterprise Center residents and visitors responding to our guiding question. This map is an for first Cahokia and then SPENCER CREEK Busch Stadium Anheuser Busch Brewery Laumeier Sculpture Park St. Louis to exist and Missouri Botanical Garden Cathedral Basilica Six Flags thrive. DARDENNE Old Courthouse The Hill Pruitt-Igoe interpretation and reflection on those we collected. Like all maps and monuments, The Loop Grand Blvd Crown Candy Kitchen ST. PETERS My House The Fox Theater Downtown this artifact is impermanent and incomplete. 22 mapmakers included the Cahokia Washington University in St. Louis Art Hill Fairgrounds Park Mounds, the remains of the once FERGUSON thriving Mississippian metropolis of City Museum Cahokia Mounds Home FRONTIER January-Wabash Park Cahokia, the largest settlement Missouri History Museum Delmar Blvd Saint Louis University north of Mexico pre- Columbus. AIRPORT EarthDance Farms Michael Brown Memorial/ Ferguson Uprising NORWOOD 3 maps cite Mill Creek Valley, a 10 nearly-200-year-old African-American types of places mapped community of 20,000 people, 5500 WELDON SPRING homes, and 800 businesses that was Prince of Peace Missionary Church intentionally erased by the city as part of its 20th century urban renewal HARVESTER r e plan. It was razed in 1959 under v 495 Places i 500 Proposed/Imagined Mayor Tucker in the name R St. Louis 2018–2020 Research Map Erased/Demolished i of “slum clearance.” p 400 p Marked/Current i GRANITE CITY COTTLEVILLE s s NORMANDY i 300 s s In the summer of 2018 I invited Monument Lab to organize a St. Louis Workhouse (Closed) i project as a counterpoint to the Pulitzer Arts Foundation’s MARYLAND HEIGHTS M e 200 MIDLAND Lak exhibition, Striking Power: Iconoclasm in Ancient Egypt (Mar 161 Places Mary Meachum hoe Bike Trail rses 22-Aug 11, 2019), which brought together objects intentional- Ho ly destroyed for religious or political purposes across 4,000 100 84 Places 77 Places years of history. Though historic in nature, the exhibition un- 66 Places 53 Places 47 Places 39 Places derscored how visual culture facilitates narratives of power, 13 Places 7 Places 0 NAMEOKI asking viewers to look deeper at cultural memory and the VENICE creation and destruction of monuments, cultural sites, and Park COLLINSVILLE memorials across time and place. To make these ideas relevant Mound Goody Goody Diner O’Fallon Park BOONE Artwork to St. Louisans and to the contemporary moment, we asked Institution/Building Waterway/ 2 mapmakers called for the Infrastructure Other Places Neighborhood Personal Site Monument Lab to collaborate in a project about regional power Noteworthy Site Wellston Loop memorialization of Hop Alley, the and visual culture. Geological Feature city’s original Chinese immigrant CREVE COEUR community. The small Chinatown was Monument Lab proposed a research residency that gathered Mary Meachum publicly-sourced inventories of St. Louis’s symbols and sites of 24:1 Cinema Black Wall Street Freedom Crossing nearly 100 years old when it was UNIVERSITY CITY CITY OF ST. LOUIS Grand Avenue demolished in the mid-1960s to memory in order to explore this question: How would you map Fairground Park Water Tower the monuments of St. Louis? The project, titled Public Iconogra- Freedom Arts make way for Busch Memorial Friendly Temple Julia Davis Bissell Street phies, focused on existing landmarks and monuments, as well Shelley Public Library Water Tower Stadium and downtown Missionary The Ville House as aspects of the city’s current landscape that are not memori- Monument redevelopment. Sumner Hyde Park alized but are nonetheless part of the public consciousness of High School to the Land of The Chuck Berry House Wohl Center Forgotten Gods the city’s histories of justice and injustice, equity and exclusion. St. Louis Black Rep Better Family Lewis Place Tandy Recreation Center Jeff-Vander-Lou Life Inc. Art House Sara-Lou Working from a research field office at the Pulitzer, Monument Chuck Berry The Loop Dr. King Brooklyn, IL Statue Delmar Divide Amytis Cafe Henry Armstrong Monument Lab and a team of local researchers expanded their work into 141 Statue Theater Homer G. Phillips various communities through research-gathering meet-ups at Health Center & Griot Museum Cahokia Mounds zipcodes where mapmakers live Landmark's Fountain Lewis Place Proposed Memorial cultural sites around St. Louis. The team attended 46 events Park Saints Teresa and of Black History State Historic Site Tivoli Theatre Historic Gate and engaged people from 141 zip codes over three months in Proposed Progressive Emporium Bridget Catholic Church Crown Candy Kitchen STITES Forest Park Monument to Racial summer 2019. Members of the public were invited to partici- Washington Missouri Monument Segregation/Division & Education Center St. Louis Place Park University History to BIPOC Comet Redd Foxx Monument to the Loss pate in the research by submitting their responses in the form Museum Theater Monument of an Urban Renovation New Roots Urban Farm of a hand-drawn map. By gathering this data, the researchers Removed Nelly’s House Miles, Charlie, and Coltrane Neighborhood Confederate Pulitzer Arts Memorials at David Stewart’s Pruitt-Igoe Big Mound City of East St. Louis built an atlas of over 750 maps marking both traditional and Art Hill Cathedral Basilica Jazz Bistro Memorial of St. Louis Foundation Gamble Recreation Center unofficial sites of memory, whether the monuments—sites, St. Louis Art Museum Apotheosis of MUNY Franklin Ave St. Louis 1917 Race Riots Memorial memorials, or landmarks—be existing, potential, historical, or Strauss The Fox Theater New Criterion Theater Downtown Barnes-Jewish Planned Roosevelt Theater Lindell Bank erased. The goals of the project were to explore the relationship Cahokia Ancient African Arts Festival Hospital Park ESLPD City Monument Parenthood (Former First Illinois Bank) between St. Louis’s residents and the city’s inherited symbols, CHESTERFIELD St. Louis City CANTEEN AMOCO Sign Jefferson Museum Laclede’s Local Legends as a means to critically explore, represent, and update the ico- CLAYTON University Vashon Landing Monument to Bank & Trust Serra Park National the Immigrant Listening Room and Cigar Bar nography of the city. High School‡ Blues Jones Park Zoo The Grove Hop Alley Citygarden Former Casino 2 maps call for greater recognition of St. Louis Central Museum Old Lincoln Katherine Dunham Center Science Union Station Queen Riverboat As we move to the future I am inspired by the research model The Hill West End Enterprise Old Courthouse Casino Sr. High the 1917 Race Riots in which white mobs Center Queen and vulnerability of the St. Louis mapmakers. I am humbled by MISSOURI RIVER Center The Arch ESL School District 189 killed an estimated 40-150 African- Transgender Mill Creek Monument to Chinese-Americans Cargill the 750 conversations the researchers had with individuals Maya Angelou’s Largest Slave Jackie Joyner Kersee Americans. The violence of 1917 demands Memorial Garden Valley Trading Post in STL Lewis & Clark Community Center across St. Louis, each one a moment of community connection Babler Birthplace Memorial comparison to the Ferguson Uprising State Park Planter’s Not Walls, that reflects the power of listening. Missouri Botanical Garden Lafayette Park Hotel Busch The Field Bridge Yes EAST ST. LOUIS that would happen almost 100 years Stadium House LAFAYETTE Museum Dred & Harriet House of Miles later just 15 miles away—as one —Kristin Fleischmann Brewer, Pulitzer Arts Foundation Compton Hill Water Tower BB’s Jazz, Blues Scott Memorial East St. Louis mapmaker said, “The history and Soups East St. Louis Dunbar Elementary Tower Grove Park Highschool is the present.” Fox Park Soulard Farmers Market Lessie Bates Davis Neighborhood House Kingshighway Blvd Christopher Mary Brown Center Paul Laurence Dunbar Sunshine Cultural “How would you map the monuments of St. Louis?” Columbus Elementary School Arts Center CASEYVILLE French Village Douglass High School South Grand Blvd Statue† Benton Park Lincoln At Monument Lab, we begin from the premise that monuments Park Drive-In Theater are statements of power and presence in public. In our work Anheuser-Busch Alton & Southern Reginald Hudlin Cherokee Street St. Louis Brewery Railway Childhood Home with the Pulitzer Arts Foundation and other St. Louis-area col- Cherokee laborators, we wanted to locate monuments in their imagined, Center Ike & Tina Turner House Gravois Park Cherokee remembered, and idealized landscapes. We sought to unfix Southtown Street entrenched mythologies and dividing lines of St. Louis using Ted Drewes Frozen Custard Statue Indian residents’ hand-drawn maps of monuments to reconstitute power, place, and memory. 285 JEFFERSON Proposed Monument to Alnita Chief Pontiac Traditionally, people use maps to claim land just as they use Memorial WILDHORSE mapmakers answered “how do you identify?” Bevo Mill Windmill monuments to shape history. In each case, mapmakers and Ted Drewes Frozen Custard monument builders aim to compress change over time into Francis Park 14 maps included the remains of the single images.
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