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R WENTZVILLE i p p i s s i s s i Monument Lab 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 Ted Drewes Frozen Custard CHOUTEAU Mississippi River Highway 64/40 Cherokee Street monuments of St. Louis? The Mississippi was mentioned or drawn NORTHWESTSaint Louis Science Center East St. Louis by 173 mapmakers. The mighty river 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, River Central West End EDWARDSVILLE transport, and industry, allowing Saint Louis Pulitzer Arts Foundation residents and visitors responding to our guiding question. This map is an for first and then SPENCER CREEK Anheuser Busch Brewery Laumeier 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 Cahokia Mounds Home FRONTIER January-Wabash Park Cahokia, the largest settlement 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 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 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 Bank) between St. Louis’s residents and the city’s inherited symbols, CHESTERFIELD St. Louis City CANTEEN 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 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. They use these representations to consolidate former Pruitt-Igoe public housing authority and dominance. Sugarloaf er Mound iv complex, which opened in 1955 and was R During the summer of 2019, our team gathered 750 illustrated i fully demolished by 1976, a symbol of p CENTREVILLE racist zoning and housing policies maps featuring over 1,000 places across the region. Through Carondelet Park ip these maps, we encountered a city defined by both tradition- QUEENY s as well as a failure of modern is al monuments and unofficial sites of memory. In this collective s architectural design and s version of the city, we saw a St. Louis imprinted by pre-colonial i urban renewal. BONHOMME Indigenous histories, legacies of migration and segregation, M and countless sites of civic pride and resistance. The Gateway Arch, perhaps the city’s most iconic marker is depicted by our mapmakers as a symbol of home and hope; a symbol of forced Castlewood GRAVOIS relocation; and a site for new monuments. State Park Legend This Monument Lab map of St. Louis presents an amalgam of the hand-drawn maps collected in summer 2019. It features the BELLEVILLE most commonly drawn landmarks on the maps, places that have been erased or demolished from the landscape, and potential 14 or More Mentions Proposed/Imagined With Site or imagined monuments proposed by participants. The map Out of 750 individual maps, these locations were listed on at least 14 These are participant proposals for monument or memorial status, or also includes sites that recognize the histories and contribu- The Gateway Arch was the most cited name change, to be assigned to an existing location tions of Black St. Louis. The full dataset of the Monument Lab CONCORD monument in the collected maps; St. Louis maps, including transcriptions and image files, can be Existing With Recognition however, more than half of the N found on our website, MonumentLab.com Lone Elk Park Mentioned 22 times, Delmar mapmakers did not include These locations are places that are current and open, and are formally Proposed/Imagined Without Site This map is one representation of the city drawn from collected MERAMEC Boulevard runs East-West through it in their map of recognized as monuments, memorials, landmarks, or historically These are participant ideas for new monuments that do not have a the city. maps. We hope it opens more possibilities for engaging significant sites specific existing site associated with them St. Louis dividing residents racially monuments, landscapes, and our relationships to them. We and socioeconomically. One mapmaker must continue to reimagine the living histories around us. called for a monument that could “best Existing Without Recognition LEMAY Personal Memories represent the racial history of white —Monument Lab These locations are places that are current and open, but aren’t These locations are some of the many sites listed as personally flight, segregationist gerrymandering, and the continued oppression of Six Flags formally recognized as a monuments or memorials signifcant on participant maps Black and Brown folks of STL and the resources denied STOOKEY W E to them.” Monument Lab Research Residency Team: Laurie Allen, Paul Farber, Erased/Demolished Black St. Louis SUGARLOAF Kristen Giannantonio, William Hodgson, and Allison Nkwocha These sites are physically gone, but not forgotten—participants would Locations outlined in yellow are listed by participants who specifically St. Louis Research Associates: Liz Deichmann, Derek Laney, and MK Stallings like to see their memory preserved or reimagined used the words “Black” or “African American” in the description of Pulitzer Arts Foundation Team: Kristin Fleischmann Brewer, their maps Sophie Lipman, and Joshua Peder Stulen Washington University in St. Louis Research Partners: †Removed or demolished since data was gathered David Cunningham (Sociology) and Geoff Ward (African & ‡Now exists in a different location PRECINCT 10 African-American Studies) The Public Iconographies residency was presented in coordination with the S Striking Power: Iconoclasm in Ancient Egypt exhibition at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation. 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