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Title: Historical and interesting places of Saint Louis
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Head, Idress. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: (St. Louis?)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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rs ago, as Congressman, secured theappropriation for the present Post Office, located onthe block bounded by Eighth, Ninth, Olive andLocust Streets; Congressman Richard Bartholdt,to whom the city is most indebted for the newPost Office, and Postmaster Frank Wyman. Theexercises being conducted by James E. Smith,president of the Business Mens League, the musicbeing furnished by the carriers band. The plan of building is termed the St. Louisidea, being the first of its kind in the UnitedStates devoted entirely to postal work, and is tobe a model for the entire country. It is to be atwo story building, constructed for work and notfor show, as so many of the present day post of-fices are, affording by means of glass roofs bothnatural light and ventilation. Another feature ofthis idea is the connection with Union Station bya subterranean tunnel, so that within five or tenmmutes after the arrival of a train, a letter can beready for the delivery, either by mail car or ear-ner. 44 SAINT LOUIS
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S.t/XT LOUIS 45 LIBRARIES. The Mercantile Library, oj^ened in 1846 underthe management of the Mercantile Library As-sociation. This Library is on Locust Street, be-tween Broadway and Sixth Street, occupying theentire sixth floor of the Mercantile Library Build-ing. In i85r the present site was purchased and abuilding erected, at a cost of $100,000, and in1885 this building was torn down and a new fireproof building was erected, this property nowvalued at $400,000. The style is Romanesque—Henry S. Isaac, Architect. It is built of granite,brick, terra cotta and iron. The lower story isof red granite, the entrance on Locust of granitework, round arched with columns and richly carvedcaptitals, opening into a handsomely furnished,marble floored vestibule. The large reading roomeighty-seven by forty feet, is possibly as handsome,well lighted, heated and ventilated as any in thecountry. Near the S. E. extremity of the room,is an old fashioned fire place, which adds muchto the beauty of the

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