. Historical and interesting places of Saint Louis. Germany and Italian. Onthe Museum building itself, are two bronze Grif-fins, by A. Phimister Proctor, and five symbolicstatues, by Elwel, Linder, Jaegers, Gellert and He-ber, and three High Reliefs, by Hermon ]MacNeil,will be placed in the near future over the front en-trance, representing Music, Architecture andLiterature. A bronze tablet, nine and one-half by four andone half feet, and costing over three thousand dol-lars, will be placed in one of the walls of thisMuseum. One half of the tablet showing a birds-eye view of the Exposition, th
. Historical and interesting places of Saint Louis. Germany and Italian. Onthe Museum building itself, are two bronze Grif-fins, by A. Phimister Proctor, and five symbolicstatues, by Elwel, Linder, Jaegers, Gellert and He-ber, and three High Reliefs, by Hermon ]MacNeil,will be placed in the near future over the front en-trance, representing Music, Architecture andLiterature. A bronze tablet, nine and one-half by four andone half feet, and costing over three thousand dol-lars, will be placed in one of the walls of thisMuseum. One half of the tablet showing a birds-eye view of the Exposition, the other half bearingan inscription commemorative of the object of theExposition and the erection of the Art Museum. Dr. Paul Clemens, of Bonn University, whomight be styled the German imperial connoisseur,has said that the Saint Louis Museum of FineArts possessed the best nucleus of valuable paint-ings and statuary of any similar institution inAmerica. Most of the exhibits in this building are theproperty of Washington University. 100 SAINT LOUIS. First Church in Saint Louis, 1770, Second and Walnut. CHURCHES. The old Cathedral (Catholic) is one of thehistoric structures of the City, and a monumentto the pioneer Catholic settlers. It is on Walnutand Second Streets, and marks the spot where wasbuilt the first church, of loes, in Saint Louis in // Father Gibault celebrated the first mass Through Bishop Rosati, the first Bishop ofSaint Louis, and builder of this Cathedral, whowas a class mate of Gregory XAI, this church ob-tained favors which no other church has in theworld, except the Basilicas in Rome. One of themost noteworthy favors granted by the Pope, wasan indulgence which is only granted to pilgrimsAisiting the seven Roman Basilicas. By specialindult this indulgence may be gained by visitingthe three altars in the Saint Louis Cathedral,though no other church or Cathedral is so pri-vileged. In striking contrast to the first home of logs, SAINT LOUIS 101
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