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Looking Back, Chesterfield Mall
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, August 17, 1975, Page 37 Chesterfield Mall officially closed forever on August 31, and I was told by management that demolition will begin earlier than planned. The mall...
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Lake School, Revisited
Well, this came out of left field. Creve Coeur wants to demolish the historic Lake School, which I looked at back on New Year’s Eve of 2021. I went by a couple of weeks ago to evaluate the condition...
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Chesterfield Mall, Under Demolition
While demolition officially commenced on October 15, exterior signs of the deconstruction of the almost fifty year old Chesterfield Mall have only just begun to show on the exterior. Completion is set...
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Former Deep Springs Farm
An interesting relic of St. Louis County’s attempt to build a poor farm in the southwest corner of St. Louis County lies buried inside the innards of a hotel built in 1980. It is just north of the...
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Chesterfield Mall, Demolition, March 2025
Demolition is proceeding rapidly at Chesterfield Mall, and the target of finishing in May seems like it will be easily met. We last stopped by in December of last year and interior demolition was...
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Theaters Demolished, Chesterfield Mall
The last expansion to Chesterfield Mall, the AMC theater with a food court, Borders and Cheesecake Factory, was demolished in the last couple of weeks.
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Sears Demolished, Chesterfield Mall
The former Sears has been demolished at the Chesterfield Mall site, which culminates the clearing of the buildings for redevelopment. The former Macy’s and eventually reopened Dillard’s buildings will...
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Chapel, Maryville University
When the old Maryville College and its chapel was left behind, the new Maryville University in West County soon built replacements for those accoutrements of the past. Built in 1981, the Huttig Chapel...
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Marycliffe, The Marianist Retreat, Wildwood
Just south of Glencoe on Missouri Highway 109 is Marycliffe, which is a Marianist retreat set along the bluffs of the Meramec River. I stumbled on the retreat center recently, and its 1967 building,...
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La Salle Institute and Glencoe, Revisited
The La Salle Institute is for sale, out to the west of Glencoe and north of Marycliffe, which we looked at yesterday. It is located where Old State Road cuts off to the northeast and Missouri Route...
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