Tandy Park Recreation Center – St. Louis MO

City:
St. Louis, MO

Site Type:
Civic Facilities, Community Centers

New Deal Agencies:
Public Works Funding, Public Works Administration (PWA)

Designer:
Albert A Osburg

Description

Constructed of a “restrained Art Deco style”, it has a limestone façade with terra cotta decorative elements, similar to though smaller than those on the adjacent Homer G. Phillips Hospital. Upstairs, there is a gymnasium, the basement being a swimming pool and locker rooms. The center was named after a black Civil War hero and politician.

Source notes

National Register of Historic Places submission: https://www.dnr.mo.gov/shpo/nps-nr/99001160.pdf

Site originally submitted by Charles Swaney on April 3, 2013.

Location Info

4206 Kennerly Ave
St. Louis, MO 63113

Coordinates: 38.66016, -90.23700

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