THE
AMERICAN ARCHITECT
FOUNDED 1876
EARLY ARCHITECTURE OF ST. LOUIS — 1764—1900
By Louis La Beaume, F. A. I. A.
Archaeology is a science which demands of its devotees patience inexhaustible, energy indefatigible, and human sympathies without limit; but few American cities can be considered as fruitful fields for the exercise of these rare virtues. Your true archaeologist loves civilization in layers, one superimposed on another, so that patience may be stimulated by the promise of excitement. The social de
velopment of some communities along the Atlantic seaboard and even in the far west has been painstakingly traced, but little has been done for the middle section of the country for the simple reason that there has been little to do. The first hundred years for any community are the hardest. Paris and London and Rome were straggling camps, congeries of huts and hovels, for far more than that
OLD ST. LOUIS COURT HOUSE
(From an old engraving in the Missouri Historical Society)
Copyright, 1928, The Architectural & Building Press, Inc.
AMERICAN ARCHITECT
FOUNDED 1876
EARLY ARCHITECTURE OF ST. LOUIS — 1764—1900
By Louis La Beaume, F. A. I. A.
Archaeology is a science which demands of its devotees patience inexhaustible, energy indefatigible, and human sympathies without limit; but few American cities can be considered as fruitful fields for the exercise of these rare virtues. Your true archaeologist loves civilization in layers, one superimposed on another, so that patience may be stimulated by the promise of excitement. The social de
velopment of some communities along the Atlantic seaboard and even in the far west has been painstakingly traced, but little has been done for the middle section of the country for the simple reason that there has been little to do. The first hundred years for any community are the hardest. Paris and London and Rome were straggling camps, congeries of huts and hovels, for far more than that
OLD ST. LOUIS COURT HOUSE
(From an old engraving in the Missouri Historical Society)
Copyright, 1928, The Architectural & Building Press, Inc.