Editor note: The following article is reprinted, with specific homeowner profiles summarized. The newspaper source itself was in such tough shape that I retyped the article and added the photos. As a document, it’s useful to explain the mindset of the Lafayette Square pioneers in the 1970s, and the original rationale for the Lafayette Square Restoration Committee (LSRC)*, now in its 56th year.
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1970: Sketches Of Lafayette Square
Here are a terrific series of sketches, originally published in St Louis Commerce magazine in May of 1970.
The drawings are by George Conrey, who was head of the art department at the Post-Dispatch in the early 1960’s. The magazine itself was a periodical from what is now known as the St Louis Regional Chamber Of Commerce. It began publication way back in 1918, about the time George was graduating art school at Washington University. It ceased operations in 2012.