has a certain significant importance in the architectural history of the United States. The period of chaos which had set in before the Civil War and which lasted well beyond the centennial year, was slowly drawing to a close. The influence of able men like Upjohn, Renwick, Hunt, Richardson and others was gradually making itself felt. The serious study of architecture was being encouraged in such centers as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Columbia University, and increasing numbers of young men were seeking to analyze the elements of their art by first-hand scrutiny of the architecture of Europe. The young firm of McKim, Mead and White was beginning to introduce a new note of order and elegance into architectural design. In spite of the fact that much of the work of these talented men has been criticized for its archaeological bias, it cannot be denied that it was immediately refreshing and stimulating after the long period of dullness, bleakness and architectural illiteracy to which the country had succumbed.
The firm of Eames and Young introduced such a refreshing note and flavor into the architecture of St. Louis. The City itself was experiencing some of the intoxication of a renewed youth, in a renaissance of building activity. A new type of domestic architecture came into being and the early residential work of Eames and Young was picturesque in mass, interesting in detail and rational in plan, as much of the work of their predecessors had not been. Other men came to work in the same spirit and of these perhaps the most notable was Theodore C.
Link, the architect of the Union Station, a building which today evinces an out-of-date romanticism, but in which, nevertheless, is mingled not only a good deal of Richardsonian gusto, but something of the author’s own sensitive architectural personality. For twenty years these men and others wrought, receiving increasingly important com
OLD CHOUTEAU MANSION, BONFILS, ST. LOUIS COUNTY, MO.
Courtesy of Missouri Historical Society
HOUSE OF I. H. LIONBERGER, ST. LOUIS, MO. — H. H. RICHARDSON, ARCHITECT
The firm of Eames and Young introduced such a refreshing note and flavor into the architecture of St. Louis. The City itself was experiencing some of the intoxication of a renewed youth, in a renaissance of building activity. A new type of domestic architecture came into being and the early residential work of Eames and Young was picturesque in mass, interesting in detail and rational in plan, as much of the work of their predecessors had not been. Other men came to work in the same spirit and of these perhaps the most notable was Theodore C.
Link, the architect of the Union Station, a building which today evinces an out-of-date romanticism, but in which, nevertheless, is mingled not only a good deal of Richardsonian gusto, but something of the author’s own sensitive architectural personality. For twenty years these men and others wrought, receiving increasingly important com
OLD CHOUTEAU MANSION, BONFILS, ST. LOUIS COUNTY, MO.
Courtesy of Missouri Historical Society
HOUSE OF I. H. LIONBERGER, ST. LOUIS, MO. — H. H. RICHARDSON, ARCHITECT