St. Louis history that doesn't get memorialized — but shouldn't be forgotten
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Unseen STL History October 2026
What draws people into the caves, tunnels, and hidden spaces beneath St. Louis?
For October’s Unseen STL History Talk, we’re going underground with historian Chris Naffziger and photographer Jason Gray. The two have spent considerable time...
The unlikely survival of the Becker-Anthes House
Before Lafayette Square had its Victorian mansions, it had this stone house. Today, the Becker-Anthes House at 1111 Missouri Avenue has no roof, and newer buildings crowd around its surviving limestone walls. It’s easy to mistake it for an...
Elizabeth Keckley, Pruitt-Igoe, and the Stories We Choose to Remember
Some stories survive as a single image.
Elizabeth Keckley is often remembered as Mary Todd Lincoln’s formerly enslaved dressmaker and confidante. Pruitt-Igoe survives in footage of buildings collapsing into clouds of dust.
Both images are...
Overcrowded from the Beginning
Recently, I started a Facebook series about the social institutions along Arsenal Road. When I got to the Poor House, a complex with two buildings still standing, I did a deep dive into the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. As typically happens, I e...
Unseen STL History Talks September 2026
What do we remember about a place, and whose stories get lost?
This month’s Unseen STL History Talks explores two very different chapters of Black history in St. Louis. Pruitt-Igoe remains one of the city’s most recognizable stories, yet p...
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