St. Louis turns 250 in 2014! How do you tell 250 years of St. Louis history in one exhibit? The Missouri History Museum does it through the stories of 50 People, 50 Places, 50 Images, 50 Moments, and 50 Objects. We can’t give you a complete picture of St. Louis’ 250 years of history, but […]
Today is the 50th anniversary of our city’s flag, designed by Yale art professor Theodore Sizer and officially adopted on February 3, 1964. The blue lines represent the confluence of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers, the center medallion represents the Louisiana Purchase, and the fleur-de-lis, the city’s French heritage. The colors signify the various countries associated […]
Brick by Chance and Fortune chronicles St. Louis’s rich history as both a producer and a user of a building material that’s as lovely as it is sturdy. St. Louis is a city with a rich heritage of brick architecture, home to some of the largest and most innovative clay working companies of the nineteenth […]
