"A city is not beautiful by accident," wrote historian William Wilson in history of the City Beautiful Movement in Kansas City. Second, starting at the turn of the century, they introduced the new concept of city planning in efforts to impose order on the urban chaos. First, they fled to the outskirts for new living spaces. The resulting cities were crowded, dirty, smoky, unattractive places to live. Louis expanded to meet the demands of burgeoning populations and growing industry without any particular design or forethought. Louis was something less than an organized, cohesive whole at the start of the new century. It included Cheltenham, centered around the intersection of Hampton and Manchester, and Elleardsville (now The Ville) that year. Louis County in 1876, it completed its final expansion.5 It had already annexed Bremen and Carondelet. When the city set its boundaries separate from St. As the city grew and expanded its western boundaries, it extended its own grid pattern into new areas while also accommodating the plans of new communities it engulfed and swallowed. Louis, skewed directions of streets created oddly shaped lots and unusual intersections. Louis." Christy, as did later founders of Bremen in 1844, used the river as an axis from which to design the community. William Christy added to the cartographic mix in 1816 in his new "North St. Still, his son Charles (who grew up to be one of the most noted western genre artists) knew a sparsely populated neighborhood growing up. He discovered a rich coal vein on his land by 1820, so miners' families moved into houses nearby. James Russell, for example, purchased a large parcel just south of today's Tower Grove Park. Developers started dividing the prairie in 1805, but people only moved into pockets. These two designs converge at Grand, accounting for the change in direction in Arsenal and the skewed grid in some areas. The city designed the area south of it on a grid in 1836 with Arsenal as one axis. The streets north of Arsenal were based on the old Prairie des Noyers, so are somewhat irregular. Earliest farmers laid out the common fields between present-day Grand and Kingshighway in long, narrow strips in the 1760s. While its initial blocks near the river were platted by Auguste Chouteau in 1764, the area beyond the confines of the village harkened to traditional agricultural patterns. Louis began as a village with only minimum planning.
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