Identifier: historicalintere00head (find matches)
Title: Historical and interesting places of Saint Louis
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Head, Idress. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: (St. Louis?)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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scholastics, and the beauti-ful church of St. Francis Xavier (the CollegeCJiurch), form a group of buildings rarely equaledin any city of any country. This group is extensiveand imposing, the walls and all ornamental trim-mings are of a red color in English gothic. St.Francis Xavier church is of Saint Louis limestone,trimmed with blue Bedford stone. It is two hun-dred and ten feet in length, with one hundred andtwenty feet width in the transept, and containsgrandeur of proportion, with exquisite beauty ofornamental finish, making it one of the finestexamples of gothic architecture in America. Thegreat central altar in this church, is the gift of theMaffitt family, at a cost of $30,000. This University possesses a select and valuablelibrary; a museum of natural history; a collectionof scientific instruments; a laboratory, etc., in-cluding many curious and costly objects. Amongthe treasures, are nearly one hundred large folios,donated by the British Government in 1834—the S/UNT LOUIS
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73 SAINT LOUIS famous Doomsday Book—and various state papers.The University has an exceedingly interesting col-lection of paintings, possibly the oldest and mostvaluable in the city, some of them being more thantwo hundred years old, and painted by masters ofthe old world. Among them, The Cobbler byTeniers the Younger. This and another belong toa set of twelve paintings, representing theTrades. Nos. i to 9 are in Munich; St. Sebas-tian, an original from the School of Andrea delSarto. A Soldier piercing the Side of Christ,marked on the back as a sketch by Rubens, thewriting in Dutch and over two hundred years old.A large painting on wood representing scenes ofthe Crucifixion, is a Dutch painting, but Florentinecostumes, painted by Erassimus Winckler, A. D,1680, School of Memlinc, Bruges. The name ofthe artist is on the tunic of the executioner, theCoat of Arms of the painters patron is hanging ona tree. The Annunciation, painted by CamilloProcaccini, Verona, 1619, belonged formerly t

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