Lafayette Square Restoration Plan.

neighborhood on the near South Side of St. Louis, and reached its height between 1875 and 1890. Many large, well-constructed houses were built around Lafayette Park, the city's first major park, named after the famous French patriot to commemorate his visit to

the city in the early 1800s. When redevelopment of the neighborhood began in the late 1960s, approximately 400 of these original structures remained. They provided a variety of Victorian architectural styles from small Federal row houses and elegant two- and three-

Source: St. Louis City Planning Commission, fall 1971.