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Title
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Orderly City, Orderly Lives: The City Beautiful Movement in St. Louis
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Description
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Comprehensive article about the early urban planning movement in Saint Louis, starting with Forest Park in the 1870s and continuing through the 1910s with a park and boulevard system and the 1904 World's Fair and other projects, led by George E. Kessler and the city government, with many photos and illustrations.
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Date
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1991
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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George Edward Kessler
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Description
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Photos and biographical article about George Kessler (1862-1923), a nationally prominent landscape architect and designer of Kansas City's park and boulevard system. Description of his life and career, a native of Germany emigrating to America as a child and starting his career in Fort Scott, Kansas, in 1882, before opening an office in Kansas City and designing the park and boulevard system by 1893, "completed with the help of businessman August R. Meyer and newspaperman William Rockhill Nelson." Description of his later career, arriving in Saint Louis in 1902 for the Louisiana Purchase Exposition and Forest Park restoration, although "remain[ing] an advisor to the Kansas City Park Board until his death." Called "the leading landscape architect and city planner of the early twentieth century," designing plans for cities around the world, especially in the United States.
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Date
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1991
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
