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OverviewThis new coloring book offers a hands-on look at St. Louis's architectural history. St. Louis is a kaleidoscope of architecture, with beautiful, strange, and fascinating structures of every size and shape, ranging from the city's earliest days to the twenty-first century. In Coloring St. Louis, readers will find new illustrations of more than thirty St. Louis structures—all ready to color however you please. The book highlights a variety of buildings, including famed landmarks like the Fox Theatre and City Museum, nineteenth-century homes and new high-rises, schools, train stations, breweries, and skyscrapers. Entertaining explanatory text accompanies each drawing, so readers can discover the structures' significance as they color away. This book is a companion to a new interactive exhibit at the Missouri History Museum where visitors learn the stories of local structures in a way they never have before—by coloring them, right on the walls of the museum. Coloring St. Louis lets readers young and old bring an architectural tour home with them and turn it into a hands-on expression of personal imagination. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Andrew Wanko , Rori!Publisher: Missouri Historical Society Press Imprint: Missouri Historical Society Press Dimensions: Width: 21.60cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 27.90cm ISBN: 9798985571608Pages: 64 Publication Date: 05 September 2022 Audience: Professional and scholarly , General/trade , Professional & Vocational , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsTOC: French Colonial Home St. Louis riverfront Various architects, ca. 1760s–1800s Old Courthouse 11 N. 4th Street Various architects, ca. 1826–1864 Tower Grove House Missouri Botanical Garden George I. Barnett, 1849 Three Water Towers: Grand Avenue Water Tower, 1871 Grand Avenue and 20th Street Bissell Street Water Tower, 1886 Bissell Street and Blair Avenue Compton Hill Water Tower, 1898 S. Grand and Russell boulevards Tower Grove Park Pavilions Bounded by Magnolia Avenue, S. Grand Boulevard, Arsenal Street, and Kingshighway Various architects, ca. 1870 Flounder House Old North, Soulard, Carondelet Various architects, ca. 1870s–1900s Lafayette Square Townhouse Various architects, ca. 1870s–1880s Cupples Mansion 3673 W. Pine Boulevard Thomas B. Annan, 1890 Wainwright Building 111 N. 7th Street Louis Sullivan, 1891 Union Station 18th and Market streets Theodore Link, 1894 Urban Rowhouse Old North, Hyde Park, Soulard, Benton Park Various architects, ca. 1890s Ashley Street Power House 1220 Lewis Street Charles Ledlie, 1903 Yeatman and McKinley High Schools 3644 Garrison Avenue and 2156 Russell Boulevard William B. Ittner, 1904 Festival Hall Art Hill in Forest Park Cass Gilbert, 1904 Shotgun House Bevo, the Hill, the Ville, Walnut Park, East St. Louis Various architects, ca. 1900s Two-Family Flat St. Louis city and inner suburbs Various architects, ca. 1910s Lemp Brewery Lemp Avenue and Cherokee Street Various architects, ca. 1874–1911 Railway Exchange Building 600 Locust Street Mauran, Russell & Crowell, 1914 Cathedral Basilica of Saint Louis 4431 Lindell Boulevard Barnett, Haynes & Barnett, 1908–1914 Bevo Mill 4749 Gravois Avenue Klipstein & Rathmann, 1917 Fox Theatre 101 N. 7th Street C. Howard Crane, 1929 St. Louis Arena 5700 Oakland Avenue Gustel Kiewitt, 1929 Continental Building 3615 Olive Street William B. Ittner, 1929 Soulard Market 730 Carroll Street Albert Osburg, 1929 Homer G. Phillips Hospital 2601 Whittier Street Albert Osburg, 1937 Gingerbread House Affton, Southampton, Richmond Heights, Jennings, Baden Various architects, ca. 1930s–1940s Coral Court Motel 7755 Watson Road Adolph Struebig and Harold Tyrer, 1941–1946 Flying Saucer 212 S. Grand Boulevard Richard Henmi, 1967 City Museum 750 N. 16th Street Bob and Gail Cassilly, 1997 One Hundred 100 N. Kingshighway Studio Gang, 2020ReviewsAuthor InformationRori! is an illustrator and comics artist from St. Louis. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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