St. Louis

St. Louis Neighborhoods.  Histories of 27 neighborhoods, covering a variety of topics including churches, schools, housing, and transportation.  Map-based, with few photos. From the city's Community Development Agency.  [ccr]
http://stlouis.missouri.org/neighborhoods/history/index.htm

St. Louis Architecture.   Interesting photos and descriptions of ten historically significant structures. By Michael Leland.   [ccr]
http://www.michael.leland.name/stlmain.htm

Built St. Louis.  This excellent site contains historic and contemporary photos and descriptions of a range of scenes and structures throughout the city, including demolished buildings, restored buildings, and magnificent water towers.  Includes a tour of East St. Louis.  Created by Robert Powers.  [ccr]
http://www.builtstlouis.net/

The African-American Heritage of St. Louis.   This comprehensive historical guide, which uses mostly text, is indexed geographically.  It also includes listings of streets and schools named after African-Americans.  From a 1992 guide published by the St. Louis Public Library; put on the Web by the University of Missouri St. Louis.  [ccr] 
http://www.umsl.edu/services/library/blackstudies/slplndx.htm

Exploring St. Louis in 1804.   Drawings of individual 1804 houses and buildings, reconstructed from historical records and art, are placed on a neat clickable and expandable map of the city.  Behind the map are descriptions and images of these buildings.   Created by Bob Moore of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial who used materials from an 1883 book by J. Thomas Scharf, History of St. Louis City and County.   [ccr]
http://www.nps.gov/jeff/LewisClark2/Circa1804/StLouis/StLouis.htm

1904 St. Louis World's Fair.  This site includes official photos from the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition, along with brief explanations. From the Greatest of Expositions Completely Illustrated (St. Louis: Louisiana Purchase Exposition Press of Sam'l F. Myersons Printing Co., 1904).  [ccr]
http://washingtonmo.com/1904/index.htm