St. Louis Arch
MONUMENT HOMEWORK: ST. LOUIS ARCH
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NAME OF MONUMENT: Jefferson National Expansion Memorial also Gateway Arch
TYPE OF MONUMENT:
Arch
LOCATION:
Saint Louis, MO
DATES:
1. Idea- Eero Sarriaen & Haanskarl Bandel in 1947
2. Competition- 1947 challenging teams of architects
3. Construction- 1963- 1965
BACKGROUND ON ARCHITECT: A Finnish- American, came to America in 1923 with family (mom and dad). He studied sculpture at Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris, France he also came and studied at Yale. He had two children. Eero also designed furniture and buildings. I could not find anything about the arch elevator, other than people riding in it today.
BACKGROUND OF CULTURE:
1940 Roosevelt was president, Pearl Harbor happens in 1941 leading us into WWII, 1942 Battle of Midway, 1944 D Day happens, 1945 Truman comes into office, 1949 we withdraw from Japan.
So we were in a lot of wars, and people at home (not at war), were working and trying to get worker’s rights- Great Depression. A lot of commotion and rebuilding happening.
PATRON AND PATRON’S AGENDA:
On December 21, Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 7253 to approve the 82-acre area as the first National Historic Site. The order also appropriated $3.3 million through the WPA and $3.45 million through the PWA ($6,750,000 in total). The monument commemorated westward expansion and created jobs. Some taxpayers began to file suits to impede the monument, which they called a "boondoggle". Late 1933, civic leader Luther Ely Smith, returned to St. Louis- saw the crumbling St. Louis riverfront area and envisioned that building a memorial there would both revive the riverfront and stimulate the economy. On August 7, Ickes and Hopkins assented to the funding requests, each promising $10,000,000, and said that the
Homework needs to clearly be organized. Use this as a guide for your research.
Keep the bold headers but erase my comments when you hand in your homework!
NAME OF MONUMENT: Jefferson National Expansion Memorial also Gateway Arch
TYPE OF MONUMENT:
Arch
LOCATION:
Saint Louis, MO
DATES:
1. Idea- Eero Sarriaen & Haanskarl Bandel in 1947
2. Competition- 1947 challenging teams of architects
3. Construction- 1963- 1965
BACKGROUND ON ARCHITECT: A Finnish- American, came to America in 1923 with family (mom and dad). He studied sculpture at Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris, France he also came and studied at Yale. He had two children. Eero also designed furniture and buildings. I could not find anything about the arch elevator, other than people riding in it today.
BACKGROUND OF CULTURE:
1940 Roosevelt was president, Pearl Harbor happens in 1941 leading us into WWII, 1942 Battle of Midway, 1944 D Day happens, 1945 Truman comes into office, 1949 we withdraw from Japan.
So we were in a lot of wars, and people at home (not at war), were working and trying to get worker’s rights- Great Depression. A lot of commotion and rebuilding happening.
PATRON AND PATRON’S AGENDA:
On December 21, Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 7253 to approve the 82-acre area as the first National Historic Site. The order also appropriated $3.3 million through the WPA and $3.45 million through the PWA ($6,750,000 in total). The monument commemorated westward expansion and created jobs. Some taxpayers began to file suits to impede the monument, which they called a "boondoggle". Late 1933, civic leader Luther Ely Smith, returned to St. Louis- saw the crumbling St. Louis riverfront area and envisioned that building a memorial there would both revive the riverfront and stimulate the economy. On August 7, Ickes and Hopkins assented to the funding requests, each promising $10,000,000, and said that the