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Article: Private Places. (mansions in St. Louis) (Column)
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- Interior Design
- Article date:
- December 1, 1991
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Private Places
The other day, an architect friend of mine asked me what he ought to go and see on a visit to St. Louis. "Well, there's Eero Saarinen's arch, of course; and Louis Sullivan's Wainwright Building, and a few things by the late Harris Armstrong and by Gyo Obata and one or two others," I told him. "But what you really ought to look at are those |Private Places'." "Those what?" he asked. So I tried to explain.
All over St. Louis, you will today find a rather unusual residential pattern - a series of clearly defined enclaves, often entered through massive and ornate gates, and usually defined by a central "avenue" with a grassy median strip or ...