Everyone in St. Louis! This weekend the second part of the Benton Park neighborhood walk begins. Tour B begins at the front entrance of the Gravois Planing Mill, 3026 Juniata (at Minnesota), constructed in 1893. Benton Park West, like many south St. Louis neighborhoods, attracted and was first developed by skilled immigrant workers. A vacant lot could be purchased for two to three hundred dollars, and carpenters, stone masons, brick makers and layers, iron workers and others quickly found employment within the blossoming St. Louis economy to support their families and to make payments on home financing loans. The focus of the tour will be on the imprint of their skills on the residential and commercial structures they built. I don't remember the time but can ask if anyone is interested. Gloria