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Downtown Saint Louis
Downtown St. Louis Attractions
From its beginnings as a simple French village
founded in 1764, St. Louis has grown into a charming,
exciting and character-filled community which attracts
five million visitors each year. Downtown offers views
of the Mississippi, a vast array of business,
entertainment, attracts, and a variety of dining from
fast food to five star restaurants. A few of downtown's
notable attractions include:
The
Gateway Arch: Soaring 630 feet above the
Mississippi River, the Gateway Arch is America's tallest
monument and focus of the Jefferson National Expansion
Memorial. There is a museum at its base, and train rides
to the observation deck at the top.
Old Courthouse: Built between 1839 and
1862, scene of the first two trials of the pre-Civil War
Dred Scott slavery case; contains five galleries
depicting St. Louis' role in America's westward
expansion.
Campbell House Museum: Built in 1851
and home of Col. Robert Campbell (mountain man, fur
trader and millionaire), contains the original Victorian
furnishings and memorabilia.
Eugene Field House and
St. Louis Toy Museum:
Registered as a historic landmark, home of the
"children's poet" and home of his father,
Russell M. Field, lawyer for Dred Scott; contains an
extensive collection of antique toys and dolls.
Scott Joplin House: Home of the man who
made ragtime music famous, a restored post Civil War
structure and National Historic Landmark.
St. Louis Union Station: Built in 1894,
a National Historic Landmark of unsurpassed beauty and
elegance, and once the largest and busiest passenger
rail terminal in the world, now houses a 550 room luxury
hotel, over 160,000 sq ft of specialty retail shops,
restaurants, nightclubs, theaters and a man-made lake.
The American Theater: A National
Historic Landmark, opened in 1917 as one of the theaters
on the fabled Orpheum circuit, located in the heart of
downtown, this theater has been renovated into an
intimate nightclub with top name entertainment.
St. Louis Public Library: Beautiful
Italian Renaissance-style building completed in 1912
contains 1.5 million books and 3 million other
resources.
Internationl Bowling Museum and
Hall of Fame: Bowl on old-time or
computerized lanes and enjoy unique sports museum
tracing bowling's 5,000 year old history from ancient
Egypt to modern tenpins.
Busch
Stadium and St. Louis Cardinal Hall of Fame:
Located in Busch Stadium, where baseball is playing in
the open on real grass, the museum contains the world's
largest collection of St. Louis baseball memorabilia
including more than 1,000 items relating to Stan Musial.
ScottTrade Center:
A 20,000 seat arena that is home to the St. Louis Blues
hockey team, St. Louis University Billikens basketball
team, St. Louis Ambush soccer team, and the St. Louis
Vipers roller hocky team and a host to a wide variety of
other sporting events, concerts and touring family
shows.
Edward Jones Dome: Big sports
arena, part of the America's Center complex. Home to
St.
Louis Rams football.
City Museum:
Explore the unexpected at this exciting new museum for
children and adults. Art, science, history and fun weave
together in this downtown attraction.
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