LANDMARKS ASSOCIATION OF ST. LOUIS GUARDING THE ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE OF ST. LOUIS FOR OVER FIFTY YEARS LANDMARKS LETTER

VOLUME 43, NUMBER 6 NOV/DEC 2008

LANDMARKS ASSOCIATION TO HONOR INSIDE THIS ISSUE:

FORMER DIRECTOR CAROLYN HEWES TOFT WHAT’S NEXT 2 FOR PUBLIC On the evening of January out the country as one of TRANSIT? 24th, 2009, the doors of the nation’s premier preser- Architecture St. Louis will vation organizations.” LAST ST. LOUIS 3 be thrown open for a cele- MOUND UP FOR Toft’s accomplishments bration to honor Carolyn SALE while director of Landmarks Hewes Toft, the former are numerous and reflect 5 Executive Director of CHUCK BERRY: her determination, thor- NR NOMINATION Landmarks Association who DOWN BUT NOT OUT oughness and passion. One retired this summer after 32 of her greatest accomplish- CURRENT EXHIBIT: 6 years at the helm. Board ments was securing the pas- STUDENT PROPOSALS President Bill Wischmeyer FROM ARCH DESIGN sage of ’s historic praised the former director CHARETTE; EXHIBIT rehabilitation tax credits RECEPTION DEC. 3 saying “it is fair to say that law, one of the state’s most Carolyn Toft has effectively sound planning. The event ARCHITECTURE 6 important economic devel- been Landmarks Association will also serve as a kick-off ST. LOUIS HUMS opment tools. Her most WITH ACITIVITY: for as long as anyone can for a year-long celebration recent accomplishment was “AFTER-HOURS” remember. Due to her marking the organization’s EXHIBIT AND the creation of Architecture guidance and direction, the fiftieth anniversary. Special WABMO PROGRAMS St. Louis, a center to pro- association has grown to a invitations for the event will mote St. Louis’ architec- JOIN LANDMARKS 7 membership of over 1,300 be mailed in early January. tural heritage and encourage EMAIL BLAST and is recognized through- MULLANPHY 7 RESTORATION CITY BOARD OKAYS LOCUST ST. DEMOLITION UPDATE

At its meeting on October an addition on the site of 27, the St. Louis Preserva- the two demolished build- LANDMARKS tion Board unanimously ings. The original proposal voted to grant preliminary for the new two-story addi- ASSOCIATION OF SAINT LOUIS, INC. approval to a plan by the tion was considered by 911 Washington Ave., Ste 170 Roberts Companies to de- many to be inappropriate St. Louis, Mo 63101 molish two historic down- for the site, as it opened the 314-421-6474 town buildings as part of a corner and devoted most of Landmarks Letter is the official publica- tion of Landmarks Association of St. new Hotel Indigo project. the footprint to an open-air Louis, Inc. for its members and friends. The proposed hotel would driveway. Opinions expressed in articles are those of the Editor and contributors and do occupy 913 and 917 Locust not necessarily represent the opinion of Street (the latter building The two historic buildings the Board or membership of Landmarks Association. Please address all corre- being the National Register- slated for demolition are a spondence, comments and inquiries to Two buildings are slated for demolition (Continued on page 2) the Editor. listed Scruggs Vandervoort to make way for a new “boutique” hotel. and Barney warehouse) and PAGE 2 LANDMARKS LETTER

Proposition M Defeated, Public Transit Struggle Continues

On Election Day, St. Louis County vot- In October, Landmarks enthusiastically ers defeated Proposition M, a half-cent endorsed Proposition M and joined the sales tax increase that would have pro- Greater St. Louis Transit Alliance, a new vided $80 million for the maintenance transit advocacy coalition. Public transit and expansion of the region's public transit system. The final count showed enables the urban population density that 48.45% of voters in favor and 51.55% makes historic preservation possible. opposed. The defeat impacts Metro- Transit allows people to reduce or elimi- Link expansion in the county and raises nate vehicle use, lessening the need for budget issues for the entire system. highways and parking structures that Proposition M's passage would have threaten the urban fabric of St. Louis. triggered a sales tax fund that city voters The Board of Landmarks enthusiastically supported Landmarks Association is committed to approved in 1999 that was contingent Proposition M which would have provided funds for upon county passage of a similar meas- Metrolink maintenance and expansion. (Courtesy working with its allies to find other ure. Citizens for Modern Transit.) sources of funding for Metro. We may have lost Proposition M, but we will lose Metro officials are already suggesting that a projected 2009 budget shortfall -- which proposition M's funds would have much more if we don't act to maintain and expand the Metro covered -- will lead to massive service cuts. On the table are system. Please contact the state and federal elected officials suggestions for reducing the number of bus routes, eliminat- who represent you and urge them to support increased fund- ing bus service west of I-270 and shutting MetroLink service ing for public transportation in St. Louis, Missouri and the down at 8:00 p.m. These cuts would negatively impact the nation. lives of thousands of people who use the system. Michael Allen, Asst. Director

Demolition and two- to four-stories in suit of our mission state- nies admirably submitted to a (Continued from page 1) height, that fill in the space ment, ultimately Landmarks voluntary design review. At around the architectural cannot support the demoli- the meeting, representatives four-story timber-framed gems of downtown. Collec- tion of any downtown build- of the company stated that brick building at 921 Locust tively, they are highly signifi- ing that could be eligible for they would bring the final built in 1916 and designed cant and impart a sense of listing in the National Regis- design back to the Preserva- by architect Nat Abrahams, pedestrian scale that has ter of Historic Places. The tion Board for approval. and a three- story building at been eradicated through developers argued that 917 While we lost the buildings 923 Locust that probably demolition. Locust was the most signifi- on Locust Street, we will dates to 1895 although it is cant building, and demoli- probably see a much better covered in later stucco and Since the summer, Land- tion of the other buildings new building than first pro- timber cladding. 923 Locust marks' staff has engaged in would aid its preservation -- posed. We remain con- would not be eligible for the discussions about the project a viewpoint Landmarks has cerned, however, about a National Register in its cur- with representatives of the fought all too often. precedent set at the start of rent state, but the other Roberts Companies, their what seems to be an eco- building, 921 Locust, might architects and consultants. Ultimately, the City Preser- nomic recession. Hopefully be. Even if singular eligibil- At the Preservation Board vation Board unanimously the Hotel Indigo project ity was not possible there is meeting, developers pre- approved the demolition doesn't send the message that another option -- a Multiple sented an improved addition permits while granting pre- our battered downtown Property Documentation that did fill the corner, but liminary approval to the needs more demolition, for Form for remaining small- still left the large driveway. design. While the project new development or other- scale commercial buildings does not fall under the cov- wise. The major point of conten- downtown. There is a class erage of any local historic tion, of course, was the pro- of buildings, mostly narrow district, the Roberts Compa- Michael Allen, Asst. Director posed demolitions. In pur- VOLUME 43, NUMBER 6 PAGE 3

LAST REMAINING MOUND UP FOR SALE

Sugarloaf Mound, the last standing Native American mound in St. Louis, is for sale. Perched on the banks of the Mississippi, the mound had been standing watch for hundreds of years when Marquette and Joliet slipped by on their way south in 1673. Pierre Laclede passed the bluff-top landmark while searching for a site for his trading post, as did August Chouteau and his gang of workers on their way to begin construction of our city. The mound survived the New Madrid earthquake, bearing witness as the river ran backward. Ulysses Grant would have traveled past Sugarloaf while hauling firewood north on Broadway for sale in St. Louis. A 20th century bungalow rests atop Sugarloaf, the last remaining Native American Sugarloaf stood when the riverfront burned, and chol- mound in the area. The house and land recently went on the market. era raged, when the railroad arrived, and when the Mississippi was finally spanned. Having witnessed the ity, the mounds were still quite prominent features on great events of our past, it is our responsibility to en- the landscape. Eighteenth century French maps indi- sure that Sugarloaf bears witness to our future. cate that settlers of the area took notice of the unusual The impending sale of Sugarloaf presents an opportu- earthen structures and used them as landmarks. Addi- tionally, mounds are common features on maps of St. nity to re-examine the place that mounds hold in the th history (and prehistory) of our city. It also affords a Louis from the first half of the 19 century, and are chance to consider our responsibilities toward these clearly visible in several representations of the city such ancient structures, a matter that has been publicly dis- as John Caspar Wild’s 1840 lithograph of the north riv- cussed in the city since at least the 1830’s. While once erfront. prevalent enough in St. Louis to earn us the nickname The best known account of the north riverfront mound “Mound City,” today Sugarloaf is the sole surviving ex- group was created by Dr. Thomas Say and Titian Peale, ample of St. Louis’ prehistoric built environment. naturalists attached to Major Stephen Long’s 1819 ex- The prehistoric mounds that once stood in St. Louis are pedition up the Missouri River. The two men made presumed to have been associated with the Middle and detailed records of 25 Indian mounds in the complex Late Woodland (approx. 400 BC-900 AD) and Missis- and described their systematic orientation around a sippian (approx. 900-1500) peoples, though their oblit- central plaza. To the south of the plaza was an unusual eration has somewhat inconvenienced the pursuit of earthen stair-step feature commonly known as the definitive cultural associations. The largest complex of “Falling Garden” and to the north, a single large mound mounds in the city was a major Mississippian civic- known imaginatively as “Big Mound.” Destruction of ceremonial center located just north of Laclede’s Land- these mounds began in the 1830’s as the street-grid was ing. The cultural/temporal association of this group is extended to the north of downtown. While a majority known from analogous extant sites as well as detailed of St. Louisans regarded the mounds as little more than historical descriptions of the mounds themselves, their novel impediments, tourists marveled at their majesty. arrangement, and several associated diagnostic artifacts. A visitor named Edmund Flagg wrote in 1838; The north St. Louis mound complex was presumably It is a circumstance which has often tied both politically and culturally to both the East St. elicited remark from those who, as Louis mound group and . While the sites had tourists, have visited St. Louis, that so been abandoned by their builders for hundreds of years when European and African people arrived in the vicin- (Continued on page 4) PAGE 4 LANDMARKS LETTER

Sugarloaf Mound (Continued from page 3) By 1869, Big Mound was gone, its fill ignominiously sold to the North Missouri Railroad to build track little interest should be manifested by alignments. During removal, thirty-two burials were its citizens for those mysterious and found in two chambers, one of which was estimated to venerable monuments of another race be 25 feet below the surface of the mound. In follow- by which on every side it is envisioned. ing years, the rest of the mounds in the city were He continued reflecting upon the opportunity the city gradually and purposefully destroyed. Mounds that was currently squandering by destroying the mounds once dotted the landscape all along the north riverfront rather than preserving them and putting them to public fell to the grader and the shovel. A mound once situ- use saying; ated on the grounds of the Christian Brothers College in north city (now Sherman Park) was destroyed, as When we consider the complete ab- was another located at Jefferson and Olive streets. In sence of everything in the character of a preparation for the World’s Fair, two groups of public square or promenade in the city, mounds (totaling 16 in all) were destroyed along the one would suppose that individual taste River des Peres in Forest Park. Today, Sugarloaf is the and municipal authority would not have only mound left in the Mound City. failed to avail themselves of and the Listed in the National Register of Historic Places in beauty of their site, to have formed in 1984, Sugarloaf Mound is subject to preservation re- their vicinity one of the most attractive view by the city of St. Louis Cultural Resources Office spots in the West. These ancient tu- but its protection from demolition is not guaranteed. muli could, at no considerable expense, Landmarks Association is currently working with other have been enclosed and orna- concerned organizations and individuals to explore mented….and thus preserved for com- ways to ensure the safety of the monument, and hope- ing generations (quoted in Marshall, fully provide public access and site interpretation. 1992). While nothing can be done to bring the other mounds Unfortunately, by the early 1840’s much of the prehis- of Mound City back, we can have an impact on what toric landscape along the north riverfront bluffs had happens to Sugarloaf. In this case, as in so many others, been significantly degraded. The destruction continued looking back on what we have lost should focus our into the 1850’s when all the mounds in the near north attention on what we might still preserve. riverfront group, except for a portion of “Big Mound,” Andrew Weil, Research Associate were gone. In 1854, Adam B. Chambers, editor of the Missouri Republican, along with a group of concerned citizens expressed their hope that this last vestige of the formerly grand site would be preserved.

By the end of the Civil War, the mound was barely rec- ognizable from its original form; piecemeal destruction had mutilated its shape, reduced its height, and contrib- uted to unchecked erosion. Brooklyn Street cut through a section of the monument, and sand and clay had been mined from its interior for building material. An 1865 article in the Post-Dispatch noted that the “Mounds...are fast disappearing under the grasping, money making spirit of the age. In a few years these...memorials...will be entirely destroyed.” View of the from Sugarloaf. The author of this article relied heavily on Dr. John Marshall’s excellent primary research in “The St. Louis Mound Group: Historical Accounts and Pictorial Depictions” published in The Missouri Archaeologist, v. 53, Dec. 1992. VOLUME 43, NUMBER 6 PAGE 5

CHUCK BERRY NOMINATION—DOWN BUT NOT OUT

For those members who missed the Post-Dispatch’s Au- gust 4th cover article “House of Rock” (a story picked up by newspapers and websites globally, including The New York Times), this summer Landmarks prepared a National Register nomination for Chuck Berry’s former home at 3137 Whittier Street in the Greater Ville neighborhood of North St. Louis. Berry and his wife Themetta purchased the 1910 home in 1950 and re- sided there until 1958. These eight years proved to be the most definitive of his career, and witnessed the be- ginnings of Berry’s musical development in Saint Louis, his first recordings at Chess Records in Chicago, and the bulk of his most influential songwriting which for- ever impacted the course of popular music both in the and abroad. Berry’s particular blend of blues and country western music was crucial to the birth of rock ‘n’ roll, and as the genre’s first singer-songwriter- guitar player, he set the standard for generations of musicians to come. He consider it. Concerns hinge around Berry’s continuing was a potent cultural force in the brief period during performance career, though great pains were taken to the middle 1950s when popular music presented hope elaborate on the point that he is no longer producing for an integrated American society as those “outside” new music and has not produced anything significant in the mainstream (African Americans and poor white that regard in over forty years. As Berry himself ex- Southerners such as Jerry Lee Lewis, Bo Diddley, and plained in 2001, Elvis Presley) successfully captured the imagination of For many years I’ve been reluctant to mainstream white youth. For these reasons Landmarks make new songs. There has been a great sought to nominate the nationally significant home to laziness in my soul. Lots of days I could honor Chuck Berry as well as increase the community’s write songs, but I could also take my $400 awareness of the ties between St. Louis’ built environ- and play the slot machines at the riverfront casino. In a way, I feel it might be ill- ment and its rich musical heritage. mannered to try and top myself. You see, Practically every honor has been bestowed upon Chuck I am not an oldies act. The music I play, it Berry for his incredible musical and cultural contribu- is a ritual. Something that matters to peo- tions; the most profound may be NASA’s selecting ple in a special way. I wouldn’t want to “Johnny B. Goode” as one of two representative exam- interfere with that. ples of American music for the Golden Record on its Since federal reviewers remain intractable, Landmarks Voyager space probe now hurtling through the galaxy is now looking into the possibility of achieving City bearing the canon of human culture into the unknown. Landmark status for the house. This would not only Despite the overwhelming acknowledgement of his provide it greater protection, but would finally ac- importance in both the popular and academic spheres, knowledge the importance of this modest home where and though the nomination had the strong support of one of our nation’s musical masters, St. Louis’ own State Historic Preservation Office staff and approval by Chuck Berry, crafted the fundamentals of rock ‘n’ roll. the Missouri Advisory Council on Historic Preserva- Lindsey Derrington, Researcher tion, reviewers at the federal level have declined to PAGE 6 LANDMARKS LETTER

Current Exhibit: ARCHITECTURE ST. LOUIS HOSTS “Reconnecting and “AFTER HOURS” EXHIBIT Revitalizing the Riverfront, Landmarks Association hosted its Arch Grounds and first public exhibit opening at its Downtown District” new space on Friday, October 10. Held in conjunction with the Student Submissions American Institute of Architects from the recent charette (AIA) - St. Louis Chapter and the sponsored by the organization’s Young Architects Forum, Landmarks presented Af- AIA and members of the local ter Hours, a juried student draw- design community. ing competition shown alongside assorted work (furniture, photog- EXHIBIT RECEPTION raphy, collage, painting) produced 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. by young architects either unli- Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2008 censed or within ten years of li- censure. Subjects ranged from St. Join us and examine these Louis architecture to nature to sports to modern furniture. The fascinating and provocative evening was a great success as well concepts from over 35 stu- as a nice inaugural show for the dents who explored brand new space. For more photo- numerous ways to improve graphs of the event, be sure to visit our website at Top, AIA President Sara Tetley and Carolyn Toft enjoying St. Louis’ landmark site. www.landmarks-stl.org. themselves at the opening; Bottom, the crowds gather in the new Refreshments Served. gallery at Architecture St. Louis!

Internship proves to be NEW SPACE IDEAL FOR WA B M O P ROGRAMS Valuable Experience The move to the new Architecture A graduate student in urban planning and real St. Louis provides the Landmarks estate development at SLU, Matt Fernandez staff an excellent location from which is dividing his time these days between Land- marks and the Carondelet Historical Society. to launch its well-established and Since Matt’s program focuses on historic pres- highly acclaimed WABMO (What ervation and community development, his Are Buildings Made Of?) educational work at Landmarks has been particularly help- program for schoolchildren. This fall, ful, allowing him to conduct research on a Landmarks has welcomed students variety of different projects and learn more from the Center for Creative Learn- about available research resources. Matt has ing (Rockwood School District), also been working on a contract with the Ladue Middle School and Reed Ele- Carondelet Historical Society to build a mentary. In addition to staff mem- searchable database of the society’s 40-year old bers, Landmarks was assisted by our collection of over 15,000 photographs, as well as other artifacts. Matt views his internship as wonderful cadre of dedicated volun- having been extremely worthwhile. “Working teers, including Tim Corcoran, at Landmarks and the Historical Society, I have Karen Halla, Lynn Josse, Venita learned a great deal more about the history of Lake, Maureen McMillan, Rich- St. Louis and the Carondelet area. I am even ard Mueller, Tracy Perotti and more interested in making St. Louis a vital and Rick Rosen. Thanks for your Top, Andrew Weil explains the intricacies of building successful region that respects its past and hard work. materials to inquiring minds; Bottom, students with builds a strong and sustainable future.” Tim Corcoran, Landmarks volunteer! VOLUME 43, NUMBER 6 PAGE 7 Stay on Top of Things! Iron Horse Trestle Returning to Service Join Landmarks’ New Email List A completely unique historic preserva- will be completed in phases over the next tion project is in the works in north few years. Amenities planned on the Landmarks Association has just city: renovation of the so-called Iron trestle deck include native plantings, launched a new e-mail announcement Horse Trestle for use as a bike and public art and historical markers. A park list. While Landmarks Letter and our walking trail. The imposing 2-mile will be built at the trestle entrance. website offer great information on steel trestle was built in 1931 by the More information is online: http:// preservation news and events, some- Illinois Traction System (later Illinois times we need to bring a Landmarks Terminal Railroad), and directed elec- www.greatrivers.info/projects/ event, tour or news item to your tric inter-urban passenger rail traffic CurrentProjectsMap.aspx direct attention. As we expand our from the McKinley Bridge to a tunnel Michael Allen, Asst. Dir. offerings of tours, exhibits, lectures that led to a station in the basement of and special events, you'll want to stay the Central Terminal (now Globe- in the loop so that you don't miss the Democrat) Building downtown. Service excitement. Messages will be limited and use of the trestle stopped in 1956. to announcements coming from our The Great Rivers Greenway District has staff, so the volume won't be high. To acquired the trestle and is planning to sign up, go to the announcement list start rehabilitation work in 2009. The page here: District has re-opened a small section of http://groups.google.com/group/ the trestle that connects with the pedes- landmarks-association-of-st-louis trian and bike lane on the McKinley Bridge as well as the North Riverfront Or simply send an e-mail to the office Trail. The District board will approve at [email protected] a final design in November. HOK is the and we'll add you directly. master designer on the project, which

Mullanphy Emigrant Home Stabilization Nearly Complete! Thanks to the support of hundreds of St. Louis. Although ONSLRG has taken individuals and organizations, including on significant debt in the course of the Landmarks Association and many Land- campaign to preserve this irreplaceable marks members, the Old North St. piece of our city’s architectural, cul- Louis Restoration Group (ONSLRG) tural, and historic landscape, there is has made tremendous progress in saving cause for great celebration as the build- the Mullanphy Emigrant Home. After ing is no longer on the brink of total the 1867 landmark building was se- collapse. Quite a few things still need verely damaged by tornadic winds that to be fixed, but the building is, for the brought down much of the south wall in most part, buttoned up for winter. April of 2006, ONSLRG intervened to pany have framed up and closed off the To help defray the remaining costs of keep the city from pursuing its initial massive opening along the north end of stabilization, contributions can be made demolition order. Nearly a year later, the building. This work follows the re- out to “Mullanphy Emigrant Home while ONSLRG was still raising funds to building of the entire south wall with LLC” and sent to ONSLRG at 2800 N. repair the damage, another storm blew concrete block, made possible by con- 14th Street, St. Louis, MO 63107. For through the building and knocked out tributed services, supplies, equipment, more information, visit much of the wall at the north end. and labor from several contractors affili- www.SaveMullanphy.org. Over the past several months, crews ated with the Masonry Contractors As- Submitted by Sean Thomas, from E.M. Harris Construction Com- sociation and the Masonry Institute of Ex. Director, ONSLRG PAGE 8 LANDMARKS LETTER Donations to Landmarks’ Architecture St. Louis Capital Campaign $200,000 Robert Wood Realty Company Debra & Allen Larson John F. Toney H. Meade Summers, Jr. Alexander Young The Lawrence Group Architects Sue Ann Wood Mr. & Mrs. Charles A. Lowenhaupt John J. Wuest $25,000 $200 - $350 Lance McKinley/Gateway *Anonymous Anonymous Promotions Group, LLC. $10 - $45 Ken Konchel John W. Minton, Jr. Mrs. Thomas A. Dooley $15,000 - $20,000 Greg & Jadie Mayes Clay & Kitty Mollman Karen & Harold Karabell Daniel Boehmer: National Student E. Wardwell Buckner Judith Nesbit Joan T. Briccetti Clearinghouse Mike Finan: UMA Shop Margie Newman & Alan Brunettin David A. Chassin Jean Goodman Joanne Parrott Theodore L. Cover $10,000 Monica McFee Irene W. Patton Mary M. Foley * Drury Development Corporation Mrs. Clifford W. Murphy Tracy & James Perotti Hannele Haapala & David Juedemann Nancy M. Hamilton Susan M. 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THE BACK PAGE… “THE NEXT FIFTY YEARS FOR LANDMARKS!” After two months in St. Next year, Landmarks turns some steps to ensure that the programs and exhibits that Louis, I still find myself fifty and one of our first next fifty years will be as our membership and com- amazed (daily) by the wealth celebrations marking that productive and rewarding as munity have come to expect of historic architecture found major milestone is an event the past half-century. To- from this organization. in this city. Whether its on to honor Carolyn Hewes ward that end, the board has Of course, as we look to the my walk to work or on my Toft, the person who has, for established a strategic plan- future, we realize that noth- weekend jaunts exploring the the past 32 years, so ably and ning committee who will ing is possible without the city’s diverse and vibrant admirably directed this or- determine and chart the continued support of our neighborhoods, I am over- ganization. I hope that you management, growth and membership. The next fifty whelmed with the breadth of will join us on January 24 at sustainability of the organiza- years for Landmarks Associa- the historic resources in our Architecture St. Louis to pay tion. To assist in the realiza- tion will, no doubt, be community. And as many of tribute to Carolyn for her tion of that plan, the board equally, if not more challeng- you know, Landmarks Asso- years of selfless devotion to has also created a develop- ing. There is no question, ciation of St. Louis has Landmarks and to the impor- ment committee to identify however, they can also be played a major role in the tant preservation work of giving opportunities and to just as rewarding. Thank you preservation of those re- this city. Believe me, I am raise the necessary funds to to all who have welcomed sources. It is safe to say that the first to recognize that I secure the financial stability me to St. Louis. I am excited without Landmarks, St. have some big shoes to fill. of the Association. Addition- to be here and be part of Louis would be a far differ- ally, we now have a special As the Board of Directors charting the course for the ent place than the city we events committee working to looks to the future of this next fifty years. know and enjoy today. provide the quality lectures, organization, it has taken Jefferson Mansell Executive Director