Private Street Architecture To Be Lecture Topic

Historical November 1987 report or notice. Original dates, prices and contacts describe the source period; current availability has not been established.

Charles C. Savage, architectural historian, will return to St. Louis to the History Museum in the Jefferson Memorial Building in Forest Park to introduce his new book, Architecture of the Private Streets of St. Louis: The Architects and The Houses They Designed, published by University of Missouri Press.

He will discuss the unique private street and residential architecture of the city when he presents his slide-illustrated talk, “Private Street Architecture: Some Influential Personalities,” on Thursday, November 12 at 7:30 p.m. Savage, former curator of education at the St. Louis Art Museum, is presently on the staff of the Landmarks Preservation Commission of New York City. “The houses on the private streets of St. Louis are among the city’s most significant residential structures,” said Savage. “Inevitably my talk will include an overview of the book and reference to the architects who designed these houses, but its core will be the significant, often unrecognized personalitiesnon-architects—who did much to give private streets, private street architecture and residential architecture the forms we see today.

The talk exhumes a few individuals who should all be the subjects of individual monographs!” The audience will “travel” the extensive private streets of St. Louis in Savage’s slideguided tour and become acquainted with the individuals behind them.

After the program, which has no admission charge, copies of the book will be available for purchase and autographing.

Originally published in The Times of Skinker-DeBaliviere, November 1987.

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