Table of Contents

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1972: Lafayette Square’s Corner Place

1896: End Of The Lafayette Park Hotel

1860: Lafayette Square on First  

1894: Keep Off The Grass

1994: Ruth Weighs In On a Neighborhood Milestone

1859: Charles Gibson and Waverly Place

1914: The Tough Old Birds Of Lafayette Park

1884: Henry Vogel Cartoons The 314

1903: Photos From Lafayette Park

1885: A Lafayette Park Ghost Story

1840: A Case Of Milk Sickness

1979: The Pony Was The People

1874: Wire Titans Of Lafayette Square

1893: Iron Men Of Lafayette Square – Christopher And Simpson

1888: Views Of Lafayette Park

1988: The Hijacked Hibiscus

2023: Like A Ton Of Bricks (Part 3)

1872: Like A Ton Of Bricks (Part 2)

1849: Like A Ton Of Bricks (Part 1)

2023: A Look Back At Sherwood Forest

1994: Lafayette Square Street Names

2023: I Spied A Skink 

2013: Vile Wild Violets

2020: A Walk In Lafayette Park 

1861: Judge Leo Rassieur 

1858: Palmatary Maps The Square

1894: The Rainwater Rifles

1880: Matches, Pianos and the Square

1887: Horse Manure and The City 

1859: Lafayette Park and Krausnick

2002: The Fall of Malcolm Bliss

1925: The Real Hot Stove League

1878: Iron Men – The Pullis Brothers.

1875: Barnum’s Hippodrome

1933: Mary’s Dreamland On Park Ave

1896: Don’ts For The Summer Girl

1896: A Stable History of 1717 Park Av

1926: Bix Plays The Arcadia Ballroom

2021: Sherwood Forest

1903: A Lafayette Square Sanborn Map

1867: The Lafayette Park House

1882: The Institutions of St. Louis

1968: A Black Hip Session In Lafayette Park

1901: CF Blanke and the Aerial Globe

1892: Speaking Tubes And Old Homes

The Surfaces Of Lafayette Square

1919: The Most Distinguished Woman in Lafayette Square

1857-1898: The German Newspapermen

1878: The Power Couple of the Square

1899: Petty Crime With Petty Change

1939: A Local History of Coal 

1889: A Streetcar History of Lafayette Square

1977: Sadie Hawkins Day

1893: Skating Away In Lafayette Park

1870: The Bird That Decided To Stay

1930: The Dogleg Corner of Lafayette Square

2011: Best Laid Plans In Lafayette Square

1815: The Handwriting On The Wall

2020: A Winter Tale Served Cold

1956: The First Lafayette Park Playground

1866: Stephen Barlow Rocks Lafayette Park

2019: The Chestnut Trees Of Lafayette Park

1882: The Rules Of Lafayette Park

1868: Founders, Foundries And Statues In The Park

1931: Strange Interlude on Park Avenue

1868: Sculptor, Philanthropist And Mad Doctor

1934: John A Bryan on Clearing The Air

1904: Down The Pike At The World’s Fair

1918: Babies’ Camps in Lafayette Park

2021: The Spark In The Park – Lightning Bugs

1910: Schnaider’s Beer Empire – Part 3

1887: Schnaider’s Beer Empire Part 2

1881: Schnaider’s Beer Empire Part 1

1929: Launching The German House

1935: Just Past Noon at the Junction

1960: Retta Reed – ‘Mayor’ Of Benton Place

1938: Zeitinger Can’t Beat The System

2008: What’s a Treemonisha?

1908: Behold The Amazing Billiken

1888: Ignorance Of The Law Was No Excuse

1916: Frederick Gardner – Coffin King

2021: Much About 2051 Park Avenue

1835: Sol Smith – Father of St. Louis Theater

2020: Making A Case For Squirrels

1884: The Opera Diva And Lafayette Park

1888: Sledding In the 19th Century

1891: The Granitoid Sidewalks Of St Louis

1876: Keevil, The Hatter

1902: The Cracker Castle 

2020: Halloween Once In A Blue Moon 

1951: An Anchor On The Corner In Lafayette Square

1955: Bowling At The German House

1956: German House Hosts The St. Louis Symphony

1961: The German House Spiritualists 

1946: German House Welcomes The Teen Thirty Club

1939 To 1956: German House In The St. Louis House Years 

1928-1942: German House – The Earliest Years

1975: A Felonious Bldg. Commissioner

1874: The Cattle Call From Lafayette Square

1949: John Albury Bryan Reboots Lafayette Square

1849: The St.Louis Cholera Epidemic

1970: Sketches Of Lafayette Square

1903: Lafayette Square – First In Shoes… 

1849: The Benton Statue – East and West

1940: Swekosky’s Second Act 

1923: Swekosky’s Early Years

1836: Mayor Darby Gets A Park 

1874: A Cattle Call From Lafayette Square

1927: Turning Lafayette Park Into An Airfield

2019: Ode To Ginkgo, Or Eau De Ginkgo

1917: The Life and Times of Mayor Henry Kiel 

1892: Can You Hear Me Now?

2020: Lafayette Park Ferns – Of Fiddleheads and Rabbit Holes

1914: The Life Of A Lafayette Park Policeman

1885: The Dark And Mysterious Places of St Louis

1896: Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show Comes To St Louis

1955: Why Lafayette Square Should Be Restored

1897: No Picnic On Either Side Of The Law