a
n historic neighborhood located
                           in St. Louis City and University City,    
                        Missouri,
and an 'Urban Oasis'

 

  

   

You can explore the early years of the neighborhood's history, its architecture and its recognition as an historic neighborhood by local and national organizations via the links above.

Residents can log onto the Resident's Pages for upcoming  events, copies of the Parkview Newsletter, useful neighborhood information, and an archive of past postings.

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Oasis..... providing refuge, relief, or a pleasant contrast   

---Webster's Dictionary

 



Down Westgate, in the Fall, the housewives set
Chrysanthemums in bronze or marble bowls
Forth on the stoops, defying ice and snow
With their lion’s mane, sun’s face ruddy glow of gold.

Things like that marry weather with the soul,
Which would have its seasons if it did exist,
And sing its songs among the falling leaves
Under the autumn rain, and celebrate
Its mass with hymns and litanies of change...

from "Walking Down Westgate in the Fall"
----
Howard Nemerov

 


 

Parkview: tall trees tying the sky together overhead and unifying the community as successfully as its common ground, as well as creating an oasis of quiet in the midst of urban din.

---- William Gass
in The Sophisticated Traveler
(New York Times, 1993)

 

 



I'm sitting on the top stair, next to the railing, at the foot of our walk.  Across the street is a triangular park with its honey locusts and tall old pines and oaks.  I look toward Pershing at the beautiful homes, seventy-five years old some of them, good as new, better.  How lovely, I think.

---- Stanley Eklin
in Esquire Magazine (1980)
 

 

 

 

Graphics by Glynis Jolly, Chris Kirmaier and Judith Giraud