Washington University Hilltop Campus Historic District

A National Historic Landmark. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

From the record

“The Washington University Hilltop Campus Historic District was the site of the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition and the 1904 Summer Olympics. Many of the exposition buildings were temporary in nature, but a number of permanent structures were built and are used by Washington University, which calls this area the Danforth Campus.”
Wikipedia article Washington University Hilltop Campus Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 663 National Register listings published here for St. Louis County · listed in 1979 · category: District · a National Historic Landmark.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. Roughly bounded by Big Bend, Forsyth, Skinker, and Millbrook Blvds., St. Louis (Independent City), 63130
When was it listed? January 1979
Category. district
Township. Hadley township
National Register reference number. 79003636 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

3 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Washington University Hilltop Campus Historic District between 2006 and 2014, burning about 2 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
18 April 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
27 February 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
9 October 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Every fire recorded in St. Louis County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 79 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 79 workings within 5 miles of Washington University Hilltop Campus Historic District: 76 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Fire Clay (Refractory), Fire Clay (Refractory), Coal. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Bambrick-Bates Constr. Co. Quarry 1	Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Delore Barite Mill	Barium-Barite	Producer
Krummel and Buchner Mine	Coal, Fire Clay (Refractory)	Past Producer
St Louis Perlite Plant	Perlite	Producer
Parker-Russell Fireclay Mine	Fire Clay (Refractory), Coal	Past Producer
Tole and Thorp Fireclay Mine	Fire Clay (Refractory), Coal	Past Producer
Coffin Mine	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Past Producer
Evans and Howard Fireclay Mine No 7	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Past Producer
Evans and Howard Fireclay Mine No.6	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Past Producer
Gilker Fireclay Mine	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Past Producer

Every working recorded in St. Louis County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
Haarstick-Whittemore Houses	0.2 miles	1982
Haarstick-Whittemore Houses	0.2 miles	1982
Wydown-Forsyth District	0.3 miles	1988
McGarry House	0.4 miles	1982
Parkview Historic District	0.4 miles	1986
B'Nai Amoona Synogogue	0.4 miles	1984

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 79003636 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
St. Louis County	All 663 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.