Category: Events

Friday February 11, 2011
Doors open at 6:00pm Trivia starts at 7:00pm
Located at St Vincent DePaul Parish Hall, 1408 S 10th St. Saint Louis, MO 63104-3275
Cost: $20 per guest / $160 per table of 8

The Chatillon-DeMenil Mansion is hosting its second annual Trivia Night to raise funds and awareness of our historic site. Cost is $20 per person or $160 per table of eight. The evening will include: silent auction items, 50/50 raffles, heads/tails, and dead or alive. Soda, water, popcorn and three beer tickets provided. Outside snacks are welcome. Mulligans will be available for purchase. To reserve your table or if you have questions please contact Katherine Patterson at demenilvolunteers@gmail.com or call 314-583-5271. If you cannot attend but would like to donate, please mail donation to Chatillon-DeMenil Mansion 3352 DeMenil Place St. Louis, MO 63118.

Landmarks Association of St. Louis continues its “Lines of Beauty: Original Renderings by St. Louis Architects” exhibit through the end of the month. The exhibit is displayed at the Carolyn Hewes Toft Gallery at Architecture St. Louis, located at 911 Washington Avenue, Suite 170. Gallery hours are 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday.

The exhibit features extensive selections from the private collection of Kyrle Boldt III as well as items from the collections of Landmarks Association and modernist architect Isadore Shank’s sons. “Lines of Beauty” is the most extensive recent exhibition of historic renderings by St. Louis architects, and showcases numerous drawings of work in St. Louis, St. Charles, Peoria, Cairo, Alton and other places in the region.

Architects represented include a range of twentieth century designers, including John L. Wees, Helfensteller, Hirsch & Watson and Kilpstein & Rathmann. The show has a particularly strong selection of mid-century modern designs by St. Louis’ most important designers, including William A. Bernoudy, Frederick Dunn, Shank, Joseph D. Murphy and Charles Eames. The three images here only hint at the breadth of the renderings displayed. Don’t miss this show.

Two events this weekend are worth your attendance:

Walking Tour of Lucas Place
Saturday, November 6 at 2:00 p.m.
Meet at the Campbell House Museum, 15th and Locust

Cambell House Museum Executive Director Andy Hahn leads a free walking tour of Lucas Place, now Locust Street, St. Louis’ most elite address in the middle 19th century.

Lecture: Faith’s Modern Forms: The 1950s Churches of Murphy and Mackey
Sunday, November 7 at 3:00 p.m.
Architecture St. Louis, 911 Washington #170

Mary Reid Brunstrom, Doctoral candidate in Art History and Archaeology at Washington University, will lecture on the architectural innovations in three churches designed for the Catholic Archdiocese by Murphy and Mackey. This lecture discusses significant architectural innovations in three churches built for the Catholic Archdiocese of St. Louis by Murphy and Mackey, Architects namely St. Ann Church in Normandy, St. Peter Catholic Church in Kirkwood and the Church of the Resurrection of Our Lord in South St. Louis. At the time of building, all three were recognized nationally and internationally for their imaginative new forms as well as the architects’ integration of art and architecture.

The Lecture will begin at 3:00 PM int he classroom at Architecture St. Louis at 911 Washington Avenue, Suite 170. Seating is limited to 50 people. We strongly encourage reservations as we cannot guarantee seating without one. To reserve a seat, please call 314.421.6474 or email: landmark@stlouis.missouri.org.

Starting Thursday and running through Saturday, Fontbonne University hosts the symposium “Collective Memory in St. Louis: Recollection, Forgetting and the Common Good.” Registration for the symposium is $40 and is open to the public. More information is online here. Missouri Historical Society Director Robert Archibald delivers the keynote address Friday.

Several panels deal with built environment topics:

Public Space and the Problem of Solidarity (9:00 a.m., Friday)
• Kate Boudreau, Saint Louis University – “Fairgrounds Park: Foregrounding St. Louis’ Inequities”
• Michael Allen, Preservation Research Office – “Making Parks in the Central City: The Evolution of the Gateway Mall”
• William Rehg, SJ, Saint Louis University – “Memory and the Problem of Solidarity: How Can Cities Foster Allegiance?”
Moderated by Mary Beth Gallagher (Fontbonne University)

Visual Culture, Memory, and Identity (10:45 a.m., Friday)
• Adam Kloppe, Saint Louis University – “A Spectacle for the Eyes and Mind: The Photographs and Speeches of the Congress of Arts and Sciences, World’s Fair, 1904”
• Greg Ott, Fontbonne University – “Sorting Out the Detritus: Cindy Tower and the Discontiguous Sites of Art and Appreciation”
• Kris Runberg Smith, Lindenwood University – “St. Mark’s Windows: Reflections on 1930s Politics and Theology”
Moderated by Angie Dietz (Missouri History Museum)

Nineteenth Century Saint Louis (10:45 a.m., Friday)
• Kristen Anderson, Webster University – “We Bear No Hatred and No Bitterness Toward Our Former Foes: St. Louis Germans and the Memory of the Civil War”
• Kenneth Parker, Saint Louis University – “Archbishop Peter Kenrick and Collective Forgetfulness: Why a Leader at the First Vatican Council Faded from Local Memory”
• John J. Han, Missouri Baptist University – “Nineteenth-Century Saint Louis in Mark Twain’s Works”
Moderated by Thomas Finan (Saint Louis University, History)

Riots in Saint Louis (10:45 a.m., Friday)
• Luke Ritter, Saint Louis University – “American Vigilantes and Irish Gangs in St. Louis: The Know-Nothing Riot of 1854”
• Lou Robinson, Saint Louis University – “Forgetting to Remember: Memory and Commemoration of the East St. Louis Race Riot of July 2, 1917”
• Jeffrey T. Manuel and Samanthe Braswell, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville – “The 1917 East Saint Louis Riot in Historical Memory”
Moderated by Harper Barnes (Author of Never Been a Time: The 1917 Race Riot That Sparked the Civil Rights Movement)

Urban Museum Collaborative Roundtable – “Discovering Untold Stories: Touchstones to a Changing Landscape” (9:00 a.m., Saturday)
•    Barbara Decker, Museum Consultant and project Director for the Urban Museum Collaborative
•    Lois Conley, The Griot Museum of Black History
•    Barbara Faupel, Eugene Field House Museum
•    Andrew Hahn, Campbell House Museum
Moderated by Caitlin McQuade

Memory and the Built Environment in Saint Louis (2:30, Saturday)
• Gregory Taylor, Fontbonne University – “Forgotten Monuments: Excavating a Corporate Past”
• Christina Mathena Carlson, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville – “At the Intersection of History and Life: City Museum as Space for Historical Preservation and Urban Renewal”
• Frederick A. Hodes, Independent Scholar – “St. Louis Streets and Their Witness to the City’s Past”
Moderated by Jody Sowell (Missouri History Museum)

This month the Rehabbers Club of ReVitalize St.Louis will visit the Missouri History Museum Library and Research Center for a guided tour! Research is a big part of any historically accurate rehab and the Library staff have agreed to give our group a window onto the many fantastic research resources available at its facility on Skinker, which is itself a one of St. Louis’ architectural treasures.

WHEN: Tour starts at 9:00am this Saturday October 16th.

WHERE: The Missouri History Museum Library and Research Center is located at 225 S. Skinker Blvd., across from the golf course in Forest Park. More info at: http://www.mohistory.org/lrc/your-visit/how-to-get-here/parking-transit

The number does not actually appear on the building. It is a yellow brick building with a double staircase in front and a domed roof. There are banners for the library on the light poles nearby.

PARKING: The Library and Research Center is two buildings – an old and a new. The library is in the old (north) building, and the parking lot is just to the south of the new storage building. There is also free parking on both sides of Skinker.

Our tour starts before regular museum hours, so after you park, come to the staff entrance, which is up the driveway between the old and new buildings. It’s the door on the right, under the blue awning. Just inside the door, there is a Security office. We will meet there at 9:00am.