38.6270°N / 90.1994°W · United States
Follow any street west from the river and sooner or later it changes direction. St. Louis is not one grid but several, laid side by side as the city grew away from the water, each turned a few degrees from the last.
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The Mississippi runs down the right-hand side of the sheet in a long curve, with the far bank beyond it. Downtown is pressed against the river, its blocks short and tight. Heading west, the streets loosen and change direction several times: a broad band crossed from east to west by motorways and rail, grids tilted one way to the north and another way to the south. In the upper left corner lies the great green mass of Forest Park, with its lakes; lower down, a smaller green rectangle, Tower Grove Park.
One shape the whole world associates with this riverfront does not appear: the Arch is a structure, not a shape of the plan, and the map draws only the green of the park around it. The rail corridor across the middle of the sheet is drawn too pale to read; the motorways, by contrast, are the heaviest strokes of the drawing. The far bank is another state, Illinois.
Water is a single curve down the right-hand side: give it a deep ink so the river reads at once against the dense riverfront. Green is the second voice here, gathered in two clear shapes, Forest Park in the upper left and the rectangle of Tower Grove Park below it, with many small patches in between. A green clearly set off from the streets lets the two shapes stand out; the turning grids need nothing more than the streets themselves.
Portrait, the river down the right and Forest Park in the upper left: the two ends of the city’s growth on one sheet. The centre sits west of the engraved point to make room for the park. The far western neighbourhoods and the river north and south of the frame leave first. Come closer to the riverfront and the blocks of downtown sharpen, but Forest Park leaves the sheet.
The title, one line under it, the coordinates. In a city made of several grids, the caption can say which one was yours: a street on the south side, a corner by the park, the year you moved in.
Sixteen inks, in the configurator’s order. It is not in the catalogue, but you will find it in the palette library, filed under its material.
Opens the colour workshop with these 16 inks in place: change one, keep the rest.
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Pierre Laclède and Auguste Chouteau marked the site in the autumn of 1763 and came back in February 1764 to found the settlement of St. Louis, on a bluff above the Mississippi some eighteen miles south of its junction with the Missouri. The land where it began later became the grounds of Gateway Arch National Park: on the sheet, the narrow strip of green along the water, at the foot of downtown.
Tower Grove Park began as a gift of land deeded by Henry Shaw in 1868, and under the original contract between Shaw and the mayor, the city still provides funds for the park every year. It is now a National Historic Landmark. On the sheet, it is the smaller green rectangle below Forest Park, among the grids of the south side.
Forest Park opened in 1876. It is the large green mass in the upper left of the sheet, lakes included, on the opposite side from the riverfront where the city began; between the two lie the grids that turn as the city moves west.
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Every St. Louisan crosses a seam without noticing: the place where the street turns a few degrees and the neighbourhood changes. On this sheet you can see where yours was.
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