City of St Louis Metropolitan Police Department
City of Saint Louis Missouri
Photo
of
Police Drill & Inspection
City of Saint Louis City Hall
Saint Louis Missouri
Photo circa 1902 .
Saint Louis City Hall Police Drill & Inspection Saint Louis Missouri .
The photo was taken looking North from Clark .
Twelfth Street is on the right and Thirteenth is on the left .
Where the drill is taken place what is now the City Hall Parking Lot .
Those are horse drawn wagons on the streets .
In the center and to the right is a Pierre Laclede's Statue ( now facing Market at 13th ) and two cannons .
This area was called "Washington Square" .
It took fourteen years to completely build City Hall and was completed in 1904 .
Photo
of
City of Saint Louis City Hall
Saint Louis Missouri
Photo circa 1902 .
Saint Louis City Hall 1200 Market Saint Louis Missouri .
Looking North West from Twelfth and Clark .
Saint Louis' City Hall was built using Missouri pink granite that contrasts with pink-orange
Roman brick on the upper floors and buff color sandstone trim located in an irregular pattern
around the window openings and the roof is burgundy-red clay tiles .
Construction began on July 19, 1890 and was completed on November 5, 1904 .
The final cost was only $1,787,159.16.
Inside is the glorious marble rotunda with its grand staircase, three floors of colonnaded balconies,
arches and vast skylight above the main room of interest is the Board of Aldermen's chambers .
There are interesting murals on the Market Street and Clark Avenue entrances .
The design of the building was inspired and roughly modeled after the
Hotel de Ville or City Hall of Paris France .
The central tower and lesser spires near each end of the Twelfth Boulevard facade
were removed about 1938 because of structural problems .
The prior old City Hall was popularly known as the "City Barn" and located at Eleventh and Chestnut Streets .
Missouri History Museum
1929 Skyline view of downtown St. Louis from the South East
When viewing this photo on the lower right side is the back of Police Headquaters
with the parking lot on the west side of the building with autos in the parking lot
where the present Police Lab Building now stands, you will see in the parking lot the
Mounted Patrol's Horse Watering Trough
in the center of the lot .
Missouri History Museum
1929 Photo of Police Headquaters Parking Lot with Mounted Patrol's Horse Watering Trough
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