St. Louis was the last stop before heading to the sparsely populated west back in the 19th century. As emigrants headed west, ...

We were in White Sands National Park. The sun appeared gold on a distant spire. It could have been a golden temple in ...

The U.S. State Department has sold its London embassy building to a Qatari real estate company, the embassy announced Tuesday. The signing of the deal is another major step in the embassy's plans to ...

This city’s Gateway Arch, 630 feet high, is the world’s tallest and most slender. Together with the Washington Monument, the Eiffel Tower and the Great Pyramid of Giza, Eero Saarinen’s ...

It was designed by architect Eero Saarinen, who won a competition for the project. You can plan your visit at nps.gov/jeff. Where is the Gateway Arch? The riverfront Gateway Arch is located in ...

The Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri is right along the Mississippi River. It was designed by Finnish-American Eero Saarinen and built in the 1960s. It's called an Orthotropic Design because ...

Designed by the American Finnish architect Eero Saarinen, the arch was an engineering feat—in fact, many people thought it would fall over. But as a testament to the architects, engineers, and workers ...

Architect Eero Saarinen won with the design of what is now Gateway Arch. According to the park, “for him, ‘The major concern ...was to create a monument which would have lasting significance ...

Kids riding in the tram to the top of the Gateway Arch Have you taken your kids ... and construction began on architect Eero Saarinen’s design for a stainless steel arch in 1963. The iconic Arch was ...

The period is bookended by the 1935 start of planning for a major national monument on the St. Louis riverfront to the 1965 completion of Eero Saarinen’s modernist masterpiece, the Gateway Arch.