Tri Psi Library Tour Part 2

 The St. Louis downtown library was recently remodeled after 100 years.

 They did a beautiful job of cleaning, restoring and retaining some wonderful architectural details of this Cass Gilbert building reflecting its Florentine influences and 1912 style.

 

Although an architectural treasure, it is still a functioning library with a contemporary child-friendly children's area.

St. Louis Downtown Library Part 1

 My Tri Psi group went on a tour of the Downtown Library recently renovated. Although it appears rectangular on the outside it is really an oval building boxed in with 4 rectangles with open areas.  See the photos below

 Originally constructed in the early 1900's by Cass Gilbert (Click here for more on the history), the renovation cost more than the original construction.

The stained glass widows are by Gorham which was considered better than Tiffany at the time.

Although most of the library is beautifully restored to its century old beauty, the children's section is contemporary with windows portraying illustrations from famous children's books.  So many photos, I've decided to make this one windows and doorways.

Christ Church Cathedral

And Kansas City, TWO

 The next day we were able to see Davis's guitar recital which was at a beautiful old school in Kansas City.  First Davis played "All You Need is Love" in an ensemble.

 Then, he played "Rockiny Myner", a blues number, which his teacher wrote.

 With his uncle, aunt, cousin, 2 siblings, parents and 4 grandparents, he was cheered loudly.  We are so proud of his accomplishments even if his sister and cousin seemed to have other things on their mind. . . .

After the recital, we headed north to spend some quality time with Roman.  He even turned his dad's truck into his own "man cave".  The next day we all went out to breakfast to celebrate his birthday.

We had to leave a little early to try to beat a storm home, but had a great visit with all 7.5 of our grandchildren, all of our daughters and SIL's with bonus visits with Memaw and Pappy, a good friend from grade school, cousins, niece and her husband, sister and BIL.

And, Kansas City

 We got to Kansas City just in time for several important events.  The first was Libby's piano recital.  Since she is Memaw's only piano student, her brothers got to help decorate, pass out programs and introduce her pieces.  It was such fun!