These 360 panoramas were taken from the base and top of Monks Mound, the largest mound at Cahokia, which overlooks the city and central plaza. Look for the other mounds around the plaza and compare to the reconstruction below. Just east of modern-day St. Louis, Missouri, across the Mississippi River in what is now Illinois…
Swede Hollow is framed at one end by the stone 7th Street Improvement arches and the abandoned Hamm’s Brewery on the other end. As you pass through, imagine this space crowded with houses, which were homes to hundreds of people. Hidden among the interstates, parking lots, and businesses of east St. Paul, MN, is…
In 1910, the U.S. Census recorded just 59 Black architects, artists, and draftsmen in the entire country. Born in 1883, Clarence Wesley Wigington grew up within the confines of segregation and limited opportunities for African Americans. Yet, without formal architectural training or a college degree, he rose to become the nation’s first Black municipal architect….
