Regarding the announced program to paint house numbers on the top front step of each house in our area, using `bright yellow' paint, I for one am less than enthusiastic, and for two reasons.
Tag: Historic Preservation
While the weather outside is snowing... there are a group of Skinker-DeBaliviere residents making plans for spring and Art Fair 1978 which will be held Mother's Day, May, 1978.
Historical December 1977 historic-district proposal.
Historical December 1977 historic-district proposal.
Soon to be available at the SDCC office are forms on which anyone may suggest a house he or she considers worthy of being on the House Tour next May.
Historical December 1977 notice.
Historical November 1977 home-rehabilitation column.
As a member of the Skinker-DeBaliviere Community Council, newly elected last spring, I was approached by some members of The Paper's staff to write a monthly article on the Council's meetings.
The June issue of THE PAPER contained the latest version of several components of the proposed Historic District Ordinance.
It rained for a week, one of the cochairmen left town, and the chairwoman of Fund Raisers, who had been working despite a serious ankle injury (in addition to advancing pregnancy), had had to undergo corrective surgery and turn her duties over to friends.
To the Editors of the PAPER: This month's PAPER carries the complete draft of the proposed Historic District Ordinance.
Originally a portion of the 18th century Spanish land grant to Marie Louise Chouteau Papin, sister of St. Louis cofounder Auguste Chouteau, much of the Skinker-DeBaliviere-Catlin Tract-Parkview Historic District remained within extended Chouteau-Papin family until late in the nineteenth century.
