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St. Louis’s Delmar Loop (Images of America)

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In 1902, magazine publisher Edward Gardner Lewis needed greater space for his thriving business, then based totally in downtown St. Louis. He headed west, out Delmar Boulevard a mile past the town line, and purchased five acres of open land adjacent to the loop within the trolley tracks that sent the 10D streetcar back downtown. By 1903, Lewis used to be building a fancy that included the Woman’s Magazine Building, a five-story octagonal tower with an eight-ton searchlight in its dome. In 1906, University City used to be incorporated, and Lewis was its first mayor, serving three terms. In 1913, Lewis went west again, this time to found the utopian colony of Atascadero, California. His octagonal dazzler is now University City’s City Hall. In 2007, in its first such list, the American Making plans Association named the Delmar Loop one of the crucial country’s “Great Streets”―it’s an extended story.

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