Photo of the Week

by Freeman F. & Mary Daniels Brown

St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.A.

Week of June 16, 2002

Saint Louis Union Station Grand Hall Stained Glass Window Detail

Theodore C. Link designed Union Station in Saint Louis, Missouri. The railroad terminal was completed in September, 1894. In 1978 the building ceased to function as a train station. The neglected structure was scheduled to be demolished.  Fortunately Mr. Levee of Oppenheimer Properties realized that Union Station should be saved. Union Station was  purchased for 5 million dollars; 150 million more were spent on renovation and development, and in 1985 Union Station celebrated its grand reopening as a hotel and a shopping and restaurant area. The original Tiffany stained glass window in the grand hall still survives. The photograph above is a detail of the central part of the triptych. The lettering beneath the figure spells "Saint Louis." In the tryptic, San Francisco sits to the left and New York sits to the right. Click here to see the full triptych.