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[Memorial for the Jefferson National-Expansion Memorial Association, St. Louis, Missouri. Site plan and elevation, highway/tunnel section] – Antique Wall Art

[Memorial for the Jefferson National-Expansion Memorial Association, St. Louis, Missouri. Site plan and elevation, highway/tunnel section], and Engineering (ADE) Drawings" (http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/103_ade.html)." — historic drawing
[Memorial for the Jefferson National-Expansion Memorial Association, St. Louis, Missouri. Site plan and elevation, highway/tunnel section], and Engineering (ADE) Drawings" (http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/103_ade.html).". Historic drawing from the Presidents collection.

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Here the riverfront appears as a planned monument rather than a city street: a site plan and elevation for the proposed memorial in St. Louis, with a section cut through the highway and tunnel that run beneath it. The memorial was meant to honor westward expansion, a story that begins with Thomas Jefferson's Louisiana Purchase of 1803, since St. Louis served as the gateway to the territory it opened. Eero Saarinen's winning design, the stainless steel arch, was chosen in a 1948 competition and completed in 1965. Drawings like this one, rendered in ink, wash, and graphite, show how planners fit a tall monument and a roadway into one tight riverfront site.

Created / publishedand Engineering (ADE) Drawings" (http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/103_ade.html)."
Medium1 drawing : ink, wash, and graphite on illustration board.
GenreTitle devised by Library staff. Forms part of: E. Jerome O'Connor Archive.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,303 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-193110

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