Identifier: historicalintere00head (find matches)
Title: Historical and interesting places of Saint Louis
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Head, Idress. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: (St. Louis?)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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cherubs on the cornicesare each ten feet in height, while the four lionsguarding the entrances are each twelve feet inlength, and the height of a man. The cost of thisbuilding was $550,000. The Egyptian building of the WOMANSNATIONAL DAILY,, facing the Womans Maga-zine building, is two hundred feet long, eighty-fivefeet wide, and sixty-five feet high, built of solidconcrete, six feet thick at the base, and faced onall sides with polished white Georgia marble—thecornices are of bronze and copper. This buildingwas erected at a cost of one quarter of a milliondollars. The great hall within, with its massive columnsreaching to the ceiling, and its frieze and decora-tions finished in pure Egyptian style, form a beau-tiful and unique press room. With the largest andfinest equipment in the Avorld, it has a printingcapacity of five thousand copies of the WomansNational Daily, folded and delivered, per minute—three hundred thousand complete eight page news-papers per hour. 128 SAINT LOUIS
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sAixr LOVIS r^9 This plant in oper-ation each day is awonderful sight. A new press roomand mailing house hasrecently been complet-ed, covering a floorspace of three hundredand seventy by onehundred and eight feet.This building isalso of concrete. University Citywas founded in 1906 by:\Ir. E. G. Lewis, ofthe Lewis PublishingCompany, a n d w h ofrom its incorporationhas served as itsMayor. It is the intentionof Mr. Lewis to makethis little city (suburbof Saint Louis) themost magnificent resi-dence place in thecountry. In order todo this, he has made a great restricted privateresidence park, where saloons, flats, stables andother objectionable features are barred for all time.In addition, the entire neighborhood on all sidesis also restricted, something that cannot be said otany other American city on such a large and pei-fect scale as here. The Main entrance is marked by a forty thou-sand dollar archwav over Delmar avenue flankedon either side bv the Womans National Dailybuildiniv and t

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