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St. Louis in the 1870s. Blue indicates the only buildings still standing

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  1. JasperzillaTS says

    What about the red one

  2. porr1t0 says

    Let me guess, now it full of high buildings and no residential areas

  3. Beatleboy62 says

    I took a google maps screenshot, highlighting the three buildings today. https://i.imgur.com/MHt4JFY.png

    The relatively plain one to the left right is this: https://www.flickr.com/photos/army_arch/389453365

  4. kingof-potatos says

    What a shame.

  5. ColdMineral says

    wait until people hear how much stuff got demolished to build the gateway arch

  6. bluthru says

    So many American cities were nearly as nice as European cities, and yet we destroyed them.

    Steel might be the worst thing to happen to architecture.

  7. Treoya says

    Think about how cool large American cities would look today if they weren’t all burned down back in the day.

  8. Jazoua says

    Tragic

  9. AccomplishedParsley3 says

    What a nice city St Louis could have been!

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