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2005 -100th Anniversary

Parkview marked the 100th anniversary of its founding in 2005. The neighborhood celebrated with a House and Garden Tour in May (our first ever!), a fabulous gala dinner in November and publication of "Parkview: A St. Louis Urban Oasis 1905-2005." The product of a large and dedicated group of neighbors who worked tirelessly for two years to expand and update the 75th anniversary book "Urban Oasis - 75 years in Parkview a St. Louis Private Place," the new edition is over 200 pages and contains hundreds of photos both new and old. It is available at local bookstores. If you cannot locate a copy to purchase please send an email, or try contacting the publisher (Virginia Publishing, on Delmar). Click here to read a very brief history of the neighborhood with accompanying photos dating to Parkview's origins and the answer to this trivia question: In what year were Parkview's street paved? Enjoy!!

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)