INSIDE LAFAYETTE SQUARE

 

Lafayette Square is a couple of blocks on a side. It contains what may or may not be the first official city park in the U.S. west of the Mississippi, established in 1836. I don’t think I've been there in decades, despite having worked my whole career less than 10 minutes drive away, so I took a walk through yesterday. To say that it is charming is an understatement. More to come.              

A Downtown Park

Another view of the extension of the Arch park where the garage used to be. Right now it looks a bit barren but the grass and trees have a way to go.  

The river was behind me and the view is back into downtown. I work in the gray rectilinear slab just above and to the right of center. My window, on the right corner, overlooks this scene and down to the Mississippi.

The sign in the bottom picture is stenciled on the sidewalk. They are all over downtown, leading visitors to the entrances that remain open during the construction. 

Thursday Arch Series

            

The park extension at the north end of the Arch grounds offers some new views and combinations. It's about time.            

Bridges

I never get tired of making pictures of Eads Bridge.  The angle of view is a little different, a little lower from the new Arch park extension. Now there is this new sweeping ramp to add another curve to the diagram. Better brush up my calculus.            

Something New

There is a view of the northern end of the Arch grounds from my office window. It seems like a couple of years since the garage there was demolished and a very different type of park constructed. It's full of swirls and curves, multiple layers leading to uncertain destinations. A swooping walkway leads down from the main park grounds, beside Eads Bridge and into the sunken terraces.

It just opened to the public so I went for some shots notwithstanding the gray day. Good first impression but I'm waiting for spring and summer when the foliage starts to grow in.