Construction began in 1963 and was completed in 1965, and it opened to the public in 1967. But that wasn’t the end of the design story for the Gateway Arch. “One of the important points to ...

Visitors to the Old Courthouse, part of the Gateway Arch National Park in downtown St. Louis, will experience a more ...

Visitors can learn more about the arch's construction, Colonial St. Louis, the Lewis and Clark Expedition and more at the Museum at the Gateway Arch, which is located beneath the arch and houses ...

Louis. “It’s built in phases between 1839 and 1862 and built wing by wing,” said Jeremy Sweat, Gateway Arch National Park superintendent. “It wasn’t built in one construction phase.” ...

One of the historic building's four first-floor galleries will now focus on how the infamous Dred Scott case was a product of its time and how it still resonates today.

But their real aim, according to Tracy Campbell, author of The Gateway Arch: A Biography, was to rid the city’s waterfront of “blighted” property and bring in federal construction dollars.

Visitors can learn more about the arch's construction, Colonial St. Louis, the Lewis and Clark Expedition and more at the Museum at the Gateway Arch, which is located beneath the arch and houses ...