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The Gateway Arch is a 630-foot-tall (192 m) monument in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. Clad in stainless steel and built in the form of a weighted catenary arch, [5] it is the world's tallest arch [4] and Missouri's tallest accessible structure. Some sources consider it the tallest human-made monument in the Western Hemisphere. [6]
The Gateway Arch, known as the "Gateway to the West," is the tallest structure in Missouri.It was designed by the Finnish-American architect Eero Saarinen and the German-American structural engineer Hannskarl Bandel in 1947 and built between 1963 and October 1965.
It was the tallest observation tower in the United States from 1968 until 1996. 3. Gateway Arch. 192 m (630 ft) 1965. Steel. St. Louis, Missouri. Both the width and height of the arch are 630 feet (192 m). The arch is the tallest memorial in the United States and the tallest stainless steel monument in the world.
Gateway Arch National Park is located along the Mississippi River in St. Louis, near the Missouri and Illinois border. The nearest airport is St. Louis Lambert International Airport.
St. Louis’ Gateway Arch is part of a nearly 91-acre national park that pays tribute to American history.
On site, south side. Malcolm W. Martin Memorial Park is a park on the east side of the Mississippi River in East St. Louis, Illinois, directly across from the Gateway Arch and the city of St. Louis, Missouri. For 29 years, its major feature was the Gateway Geyser, a fountain that lifted water up to 630 feet (192 m), the same height as the Arch.
The Gateway Arch in St. Louis. One of many notable structures built by the Pittsburgh-Des Moines Steel Co. Cotton Plant Water Tower in Arkansas , built 1935 by the Pittsburgh-Des Moines Steel Co. The Pittsburgh-Des Moines Steel Company (originally the Des Moines Bridge and Iron Company ), and often referred to as Pitt-Des Moines Steel or PDM ...
The 1968 Illinois earthquake (a New Madrid event) [4] was the largest recorded earthquake in the U.S. Midwestern state of Illinois. Striking at 11:02 a.m. on November 9, it measured 5.3 on the Richter scale. [5] Although no fatalities occurred, the event caused considerable structural damage to buildings, including the toppling of chimneys and ...