St. Louis Landmark is a designation of the Board of Aldermen of the City of St. Louis

Board of Aldermen of the City of St. Louis

The Board of Aldermen, is the municipal legislature of the independent City of St. Louis, Missouri.-Composition:It consists of 28 aldermen from each of the city's wards...

 for historic buildings and other sites in St. Louis, Missouri

St. Louis, Missouri

St. Louis is an independent city on the eastern border of Missouri, United States. With a population of 319,294, it was the 58th-largest U.S. city at the 2010 U.S. Census. The Greater St...

, United States

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. Listed sites are selected after meeting a combination of criteria, such as whether the site is a cultural resource, near a cultural resource, or contributes in aggregate to the city as a cultural resource. Once a site is designated as a landmark, it is subject to the St. Louis Preservation Board, which requires that any alterations beyond routine maintenance, up to and including demolition

Demolition

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, must have permits that are reviewed by the Board. Many St. Louis Landmarks are also listed on the National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places

The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation...

, providing federal tax support for preservation, and some are further designated National Historic Landmarks, providing additional federal oversight.

Criteria

The Mayor appoints an eight member Preservation Board to develop recommendations for landmark status in the city, which are then presented to and voted upon by the Board of Aldermen. Recommendations are made based on petitions submitted to the Preservation Board by property owners, city aldermen, or the St. Louis City Cultural Resources Office (on behalf of the Preservation Board itself). The Preservation Board determines if a property is a cultural resource (and therefore is eligible for landmark status) based on whether it

1. Has significant character or value as part of the development, heritage or cultural characteristics of the City, state or nation; or
2. Is the site of a significant historic event; or
3. Is the work of a master whose individual work has significantly influenced the development of the City, state or nation; or
4. Contains elements of design, detail, materials or craftsmanship which represent a significant innovation; or
5. Owing to its unique location or singular physical characteristic represents an established and familiar visual feature of a neighborhood, community or the City; or
6. Has yielded, or is likely to yield, according to the best available scholarship, archaeological artifacts important in prehistory or history.
7. Is a work of art located in a public space.

However, Landmark property owned or controlled by the St. Louis Public Library, the St. Louis City Board of Education, Missouri or the United States government, or formerly owned or controlled by the former Art Museum Board of Control is exempt from the Preservation Board's authority.

National recognition

Several St. Louis Landmarks have been designated with National Historic Landmark

National Historic Landmark

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 status by the United States Secretary of the Interior

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 for historical significance. All of those and a number of other districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects worthy of preservation have been listed on the National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places

The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation...

. Not all St. Louis Landmarks have been listed on the National Register, and not all sites listed as National Historic Landmarks or listed on the National Register have been listed as St. Louis Landmarks. Additionally, St. Louis is home to the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial

Jefferson National Expansion Memorial

The Jefferson National Expansion Memorial is in St. Louis, Missouri, near the starting point of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. It was designated as a National Memorial by Executive Order 7523, on December 21, 1935, and is maintained by the National Park Service .The park was established to...

 (classed as a National Memorial

National Memorial

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) and Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site

Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site

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 (classed as a National Historic Site), neither of which are listed as St. Louis Landmarks.

List of Landmarks

St. Louis Landmarks	Location	Construction	Demolition	NRHP	NHL	Image
Ackley Building	511 Washington	1876
Ambassador Theatre Ambassador Theatre (St. Louis) The Ambassador Theatre was a lavish movie palace-type theater in St. Louis, Missouri, designed by the architectural firm of Rapp and Rapp. A landmark of rococo 1920s theater design, it opened in 1926 and was demolished in 1997.-Origins:...	11th and Locust	1926	1996
American Theater American Theater (St. Louis, Missouri) The American Theater in St. Louis, Missouri is a Beaux-Arts style theatre that was built in 1917. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985....	416 N. 9th	1917
Anheuser-Busch Brewery	711 Pestalozzi	1859
Arcade Building	810 Olive	1919
Apotheosis of St. Louis Apotheosis of St. Louis Apotheosis of St. Louis is a statue of King Louis IX of France, namesake of St. Louis, Missouri, located in front of the Saint Louis Art Museum in Forest Park. Prior to the completion of the Gateway Arch, the statue was the principal symbol of the city. It has served in the iconography of St...	1 Fine Arts Drive (Forest Park)	1906
Ashley Street Power House	Ashley Street and Mississippi River	1902
Basilica of St. Louis, King of France Basilica of St. Louis, King of France The Basilica of Saint Louis, King of France, formerly the Cathedral of Saint Louis, and colloquially the Old Cathedral, was the first cathedral west of the Mississippi River and until 1845 the only parish church in the city of St. Louis, Missouri. It is one of two Catholic basilicas in St...	209 Walnut Street	1834
Bee Hat Building	1021 Washington	1905
Bell Telephone Building Bell Telephone Building (St. Louis, Missouri) The Bell Telephone Building, located at 920 Olive Street in downtown St. Louis, Missouri, was built in 1889 for the purposes of housing the switchboard and local headquarters of the Bell Telephone Company. The building served as the main telephone exchange for St. Louis from its construction until...	920 Olive	1889
Bethlehem Lutheran Church	2153 Salisbury	1895
Bevo Mill	4749 Gravois	1917
Bissell Water Tower	Bissell and Blair Avenues	1886
Lewis Bissell House	4426 Randall	1823
Broadway store buildings	7121-7129 S. Broadway	1850
Campbell House Museum Campbell House Museum The Campbell House Museum opened on February 6, 1943, and has served the greater St. Louis area as one of the region's premier historic property museums. The museum was documented as part of the Historic American Buildings Survey between 1936 and 1941, designated a City of St...	1508 Locust	1851
Carondelet Branch Public Library St. Louis Public Library The St. Louis Public Library is a municipal public library system in the city of St. Louis, Missouri. It operates sixteen locations, including the main Central Library location. Although similarly named, the St. Louis Public Library is unrelated to the St...	6800 Michigan	1907
Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis The Cathedral Basilica of Saint Louis, also known as the Saint Louis Cathedral or the New Cathedral, was completed in 1914 in St. Louis, Missouri, as the archdiocesan replacement for the Cathedral of St. Louis, King of France...	4431 Lindell	1914
Centenary Methodist Episcopal Church, South	N. 16th & Pine Streets	1869
Central Library Branch	1301 Olive	1912
Chase Park Plaza Hotel Chase Park Plaza Hotel The Chase Park Plaza, located at 212 N. Kingshighway in the Central West End, St. Louis, Missouri, is a combination of two buildings housing a condominium tower , hotel , cinema, and several restaurants and bars, all constructed between 1920 and 1930.The hotel replaced nearby Buckingham Hotel as...	212 N. Kingshighway	1920
Chatillon-DeMenil House Chatillon-DeMenil House The Chatillon-DeMenil House, located at 3325 DeMenil Place in Soulard, St. Louis, Missouri, was begun in 1848 for the pioneer Henry Chatillon, then enlarged to its present form by prominent St. Louis businessman Nicolas DeMenil from 1855 to 1863...	3352 DeMenil	1849
Chemical Building	721 Olive	1896
Christ Church Cathedral Christ Church Cathedral (St. Louis, Missouri) Christ Church Cathedral in Saint Louis, Missouri was designed by architect Leopold Eidlitz and built between 1859 and 1867. The Gothic revival structure was an expression of the city's sense of its significance as the United States expanded westwards...	1210 Locust	1867
Christ Baptist Church	3114 Lismore Avenue	1896
Unitarian Church of the Messiah	Locust and Garrison	1879	1987
St. Louis City Hall	Tucker & Market	1893
James L. Clemens House	1849 Cass Avenue	1860
Collection of the St. Louis Mercantile Library St. Louis Mercantile Library The St. Louis Mercantile Library, founded in 1846 in St. Louis, Missouri, was originally established as a subscription library, and is the oldest extant library west of the Mississippi River. Since 1998 the library has been housed at the University of Missouri-St. Louis...	Now in the Thomas Jefferson Library Thomas Jefferson Library The Thomas Jefferson Library is the main library for the University of Missouri–St. Louis, the largest public university in the St. Louis Metropolitan Area.-History:...  at UMSL University of Missouri–St. Louis The University of Missouri–St. Louis is one of four universities in the University of Missouri System. Established in 1963, it is the newest university in the UM System. , it is the largest university by enrollment in the St. Louis area with 16,548 students...	1846
Compton Hill Water Tower	Grand and Russell	1899
Cupples House Cupples House Cupples House is an historic mansion in St. Louis, Missouri, constructed from 1888 to 1890 by Samuel Cupples, a wealthy businessman. It is now a museum on the campus of Saint Louis University. The house is designed in the Richardsonian Romanesque architectural style.-External links:*...	3673 West Pine	1890
Cupples Station	Clark to Spruce/7th to 11th Streets	1894
Emmanuel DeHodiamont House Emmanuel DeHodiamont House The Emmanuel DeHodiamont House is a house located at 951 Maple Place in the West End neighborhood of St. Louis, Missouri. The house was originally constructed about 1830 by local farmer Emmanuel DeHodiamont and was modified into the Gothic Revival style about 1875. It shares the status of being the...	951 Maple Place	1830
DeSmet Hall	3647 West Pine Boulevard	1898	1977
Eads Bridge Eads Bridge The Eads Bridge is a combined road and railway bridge over the Mississippi River at St. Louis, connecting St. Louis and East St. Louis, Illinois....	Washington Avenue and Mississippi River	1874
Eliot House	4446 Westminster	1904
Eugene Field House	635 S. Broadway	1845
Fox Theatre	523 N. Grand	1929
Goldenrod (showboat) Goldenrod (showboat) On December 24, 1967, the Goldenrod Showboat is a designated U.S. National Historic Landmark. She was placed on the ‘Threatened Historical Landmarks’ list in 2001....	Relocated to St. Charles, Missouri	1909
Grand Avenue Water Tower Grand Avenue Water Tower The Grand Avenue Water Tower is a water tower located at the intersection of Grand Avenue and 20th street in the College Hill neighborhood of St. Louis, Missouri. It is the oldest extant water tower in St. Louis, pre-dating both the Bissell Street Water Tower and the Compton Hill Water...	20th and Grand	1871
William Harris Row	18th St. between LaSalle & Hickory	c. 1874
Holy Corners Historic District Holy Corners Historic District Holy Corners Historic District, so named because of its concentration of early 20th century churches, temples and other large buildings of public assembly, is located on both sides of North Kingshighway Boulevard between and including Westminster Place and Washington Avenue in St. Louis, Missouri...	Kingshighway Boulevard between Westminster Place and Washington Avenue	1902-1908		December 29, 1975
Holy Cross Lutheran Church	8121 Church Road	1867
Intake Water Tower No. 1	Mississippi River Channel	1984
Intake Water Tower No. 2	Mississippi River Channel	1913
Original Structure of the Jefferson Memorial	Lindell & DeBaliviere	1911
Kingsbury Place Kingsbury Place Kingsbury Place is a private place neighborhood in St. Louis, Missouri that was founded in 1902.The land had been surveyed by Julius Pitzman, surveyor and planner, who had been the Chief Engineer for Forest Park and who was considered "the father of the private place" in the United States...		c. 1890-1910
Otto Kulage House	1904 E. College	1876
Lammert Furniture Building	911 Washington Avenue	1897
Lemp Brewery Lemp Brewery Lemp Brewery was the original name of the brewing company that became the Falstaff Brewing Corporation. The Lemp Brewery Complex refers to the name of the St. Louis, Missouri property consisting of 27 buildings on a pie-shaped site bounded by Cherokee Street on the north, Lemp Avenue on the west,...	3500 Lemp	1870
Isaac H. Lionberger House Isaac H. Lionberger House The Isaac H. Lionberger House at 3630 Grandel Square in St. Louis, Missouri is the last private residence designed by noted American architect Henry Hobson Richardson. Designed in 1885-6, the building was built after Richardson's death. The Lionberger House became a St. Louis Landmark in 1975. ...	3630 Grandel	1886
Lyle House Carondelet Park Carondelet Park, established in 1875, is the third largest park in the city of St. Louis, Missouri. The park contains nearly and is located in the southeastern portion of the city, just west of Interstate 55, and is accessible at the Loughborough Avenue exit. Loughborough Avenue is the park's...	Carondelet Park Carondelet Park Carondelet Park, established in 1875, is the third largest park in the city of St. Louis, Missouri. The park contains nearly and is located in the southeastern portion of the city, just west of Interstate 55, and is accessible at the Loughborough Avenue exit. Loughborough Avenue is the park's...	1842
Masonic Hall	3671 Lindell Boulevard	1926
May Company Department Store Building	555 Washington	1875
Meeting of the Waters Fountain	Aloe Plaza Aloe Plaza Aloe Plaza is part of the Terminus section of the St. Louis Gateway Mall. It is two blocks in size and sits directly in front of Union Station. It is bounded by Market, Chestnut, 18th, and 20th streets....	1940
Memorial Home	S. Grand & Magnolia Avenues	1867
Merchandise Mart Building	1000 Washington Avenue	1889
Merchants Laclede Building	408 Olive Street	1889
Mississippi Valley Trust Company Building	401 Pine Street	1896		May 25, 2001
Missouri Athletic Club Missouri Athletic Club The Missouri Athletic Club , founded in 1903, is a traditional gentlemen's club and athletic club in Downtown St. Louis, Missouri, USA, with a separate athletic campus in the St. Louis County suburb of Town and Country. The MAC awards the annual Hermann Trophy, the highest award in American...	409 Washington Avenue	1915
Most Holy Trinity Church	3519 N. 14th Street	1899
Old Mutual Bank Building	716 Locust	1917
Naked Truth Statue	Compton Hill Reservoir Park Compton Hill Reservoir Park Compton Hill Reservoir Park is a public park located in the Compton Heights neighborhood of St. Louis, Missouri, USA. Located on one of the highest elevations within the city, the park surrounds a reservoir used to provide water for many of the city's residents.- History :James P. Kirkwood...	1914
Neighborhood Gardens Apartments	1200 N. 8th	1935
Old Courthouse	11 N. 4th Street	1859
Park Keepers's House (Cabanne House)	115 Union Boulevard	1875
Page Boulevard Police Station	Page & Union Boulevards	1908	1995
Pelican's Restaurant	2256 S. Grand Avenue	1895
Christian Peper Building	721-27 N. 1st Street	1874
Homer G. Phillips Hospital Homer G. Phillips Hospital Homer G. Phillips Hospital was a hospital located at 2601 Garrison Street in The Ville neighborhood of St. Louis, Missouri. It was the city's only hospital for African-Americans from 1937 until 1955, when city hospitals were desegregated, and continued to serve the black community of St. Louis...	2601 Whittier Avenue	1937		September 23, 1982
Pilgrim Congregational Church (St. Louis, Missouri)	826 Union	1906
Powell Symphony Hall Powell Symphony Hall Powell Symphony Hall is the home of the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra. It was named after Walter S. Powell, a local St. Louis businessman, whose widow donated $1 million towards the purchase and use of this hall by the symphony...	718 N. Grand	1925
Prince Hall Grand Lodge No. 2	3615-19 Dr. Martin Luther King Boulevard	1896
Resurrection of Our Lord Catholic Church	3900 Meramec	1954
Sacred Heart of Jesus Catholic Church	2830 N. 25th Street	1898	1986
Saint Louis Art Museum Saint Louis Art Museum The Saint Louis Art Museum is one of the principal U.S. art museums, visited by up to a half million people every year. Admission is free through a subsidy from the cultural tax district for St. Louis City and County.Located in Forest Park in St...	1 Fine Arts Drive (Forest Park)	1904
Saint Louis University Museum of Art Saint Louis University Museum of Art The Saint Louis University Museum of Art is the formal art museum for Saint Louis University. It is located at 3663 Lindell Boulevard in St. Louis, Missouri and is also known as O'Donnell Hall.-The building:...   (formerly known as the Woolworth Building)	3663 Lindell	1899
Schlichtig House	300 Marceau Street	1852		May 29, 1980
Second Presbyterian Church (St. Louis, Missouri)	4501 Westminster	1896
Security Building	319 N. 4th Street	1890
St. Alphonsus Catholic Church	1118 N. Grand	1893
St. Francis DeSales Church St. Francis de Sales Church (St. Louis, Missouri) St. Francis de Sales Church is a Roman Catholic Oratory located on the South Side of St. Louis, Missouri. It is the second largest church in the Archdiocese of St. Louis after the cathedral-basilica. The church is popularly known as the "Cathedral of South St. Louis."The historic main church was...	2653 Ohio Avenue	1906
St. Francis Xavier College Church	3628 Lindell	1898
St. John Nepomuk Church	S. 11th & Lafayette	1895
St. John the Apostle and Evangelist Church	16th & Chestnut Streets	1869
Shrine of St. Joseph Catholic Church Shrine of Saint Joseph, St. Louis, Missouri The Shrine of Saint Joseph, which is at the corner of 11th Street and Biddle in St. Louis, Missouri, has a vast and interesting history. The church had its beginning in 1843 when the Jesuits founded the parish to serve a pleasant residential community consisting mostly of German immigrants...	1220 N. 11th	1844
Sisters of St. Joseph Convent	6400 Minnesota	1841
St. Liborius Church and Buildings	1835 N. Market	1857
St. Louis Union Station St. Louis Union Station St. Louis Union Station, a National Historic Landmark, is a passenger train terminal in St. Louis, Missouri. Once the world's largest and busiest train station, it was converted in the early 1980s into a luxury hotel, shopping center, and entertainment complex...	1820 Market	1894
St. Mark's Episcopal Church	4712 Clifton	1939
St. Mary of Victories Catholic Church	744 S. 3rd	1843
St. Peter and St. Paul's Church	1919 S. 7th Street	c. 1873
St. Stanislaus Kostka Church	1419 N. 20th	1891
St. Vincent DePaul Church	1417 S. 9th Street	1844
Henry Shaw City House	Missouri Botanical Garden Missouri Botanical Garden The Missouri Botanical Garden is a botanical garden located in St. Louis, Missouri. It is also known informally as Shaw's Garden for founder Henry Shaw, a botanist and philanthropist.-History:...	1849
Shaw Place	Ten Houses	1879
Sheldon Concert Hall The Sheldon The Sheldon Concert Hall in St. Louis, Missouri was designed by noted 1904 World’s Fair architect Louis C. Spiering and built in 1912 as the home of the Ethical Society of St. Louis. Musicians and public speakers throughout the years have enjoyed the perfect acoustics of the Sheldon Concert Hall,...	3646 Washington	1912
Shining Light Tabernacle	7121 Manchester Road	1891
Soulard Market Soulard, St. Louis Soulard is a historic French neighborhood in St. Louis, Missouri. It is named after Antoine Soulard, who first began to develop the land...	730 Carroll	1928
Houses at 200-204 Steins and 7012 Minnesota	200-204 Steins and 7012 Minnesota	c. 1840-50
Jacob Steins House	Steins & Reilly Streets	1843
Stockstrom House	3400 Russell Boulevard	1907
Strassberger's Conservatory	2300 S. Grand Avenue	1904
Towne Theatre	210 N. 6th Street	1896	1983
House at 911 North Tucker Street	911 N. Tucker	1870
Union Avenue Christian Church	733 Union	1904
Union Market	Between Broadway, N. 6th, Lucas and Convention Center Plaza	1924
Union Trust Company Building	705 Olive Street	1892
United Missouri Bank Building	312 N. 8th Street	1855
U.S. Customhouse and Post Office United States Customhouse and Post Office (St. Louis, Missouri) The U.S. Custom House and Post Office is a court house in St. Louis, Missouri.It was designed by architects Alfred B. Mullett, William Appleton Potter, and James G. Hill, and was constructed between 1873 and 1884. Located at the intersection of Eighth and Olive Streets, it is one of three surviving...	815 Olive	1884
Vess Advertising Device	6th & 520 O'Fallon	1950
Veterans Administration Building	200 N. Broadway	1907	1977
Von Harten Residence	5433 Enright Avenue	1896
Wainwright Building Wainwright Building The Wainwright Building is a 10-story red brick office building at 709 Chestnut Street in downtown St. Louis, Missouri. The Wainwright Building is among the first skyscrapers in the world. It was designed by Dankmar Adler and Louis Sullivan in the Palazzo style and built between 1890 and 1891...	705 Chestnut	1892
Wainwright Tomb Wainwright Tomb The Wainwright Tomb is a mausoleum located in Bellefontaine Cemetery at 4947 West Florissant Avenue north of the Walnut Park East neighborhood of St. Louis, Missouri. Originally constructed for Charlotte Dickson Wainwright in 1892, the tomb now also contains the remains of her husband, Ellis...	Bellefontaine Cemetery	1892
Walz House	4708 S. Broadway	1849	1982
Washington Tabernacle Baptist Church	3200 Washington Avenue	1879
Washington Terrace Washington Terrace (St. Louis) Washington Terrace is a residential private place in St. Louis, Missouri, laid out circa 1892. The gate is south of Union and Delmar, within the bounds of the Central West End....		c. 1890-1910
Westminster Presbyterian Church	5300 Delmar	1916

External links

• St. Louis Community Information Network
• St. Louis Cultural Resources Office