HISTORY AND ARCHITECHTURE SHARE SPOTLIGHT AT THIS SATURDAY’S
50th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION OF THE LANDMARK’S ASSOCIATION OF ST. LOUIS
By Deb Peterson
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
TAKE A PEEK AT THE PALLADIUM
Mark your calendars for this Saturday’s celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Landmarks Association of St. Louis, which is scheduled to begin at 6 p.m. at the Palladium St. Louis, a newly restored landmark in the Lafayette Square neighborhood.
This is the event debut for the Palladium, 1400 Park Place, which is being operated by Richard Nix’s Butler’s Pantry.
Jefferson Mansell, who was named to head Landmarks just over a year ago, notes that the Palladium is a prime example of the types of partnerships that the association is trying to foster. Real estate developers, the professional design and urban planning community and preservation advocates collaborated to make the concept of the Palladium become a reality, said Mansell.
who was named to head Landmarks just over a year ago, notes that the Palladium is a prime example of the types of partnerships that the association is trying to foster. Real estate developers, the professional design and urban planning community and preservation advocates collaborated to make the concept of the Palladium become a reality, said Mansell.
The space was once a support facility for the city’s former General Hospital complex. It has been designed and developed by Chris Goodson’s Gilded Age, a Lafayette Square-area developer, and The Lawrence Group, an architecture and planning company.
Gilded Age is also responsible for the 2006 repurposing of the hospital’s main building as The Georgian, a high-end condominum complex. Mansell says the Palladium, which is intended to be a special-events venue, builds on that development. He added that persistent work by preservationists prevented the hospital from being destroyed after it was abandoned in 1985.
The gala is intended to raise new funding for Landmarks’s community awareness activities, which include a docent program, a K-12 school partnership program and the new Architecture Center for Metropolitan St. Lous.
The first H. Meade Summers Jr. Award will be presented at the gala. Summers has led the formation and funding of many of the state’s major preservation organizations and has spearheaded the rehabilitation of some of the state’s most prominent landmarks over the past 40 years.
Event co-chairs are Susan Barrett, Charles and Shirley Drury, Amrit and Amy Gill, Ken and Nancy Kranzberg, Rex and Jeanne Sinquefield and Robert and Anne Stupp.Pamela Kuehling, who is on the Gala Steering Committee, rounded up the auction items for the event. Monica McFee, William Schawacker and the association’s Mansell are also on the steering committee., who was named to head Landmarks just over a year ago, notes that the Palladium is a prime example of the types of partnerships that the association is trying to foster. Real estate developers, the professional design and urban planning community and preservation advocates collaborated to make the concept of the Palladium become a reality, said Mansell.: Mark your calendars for this Saturday’s celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Landmarks Association of St. Louis, which is scheduled to begin at 6 p.m. at the Palladium St. Louis, a newly restored landmark in the Lafayette Square neighborhood.
Wed, Feb 3, 2010
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