Gateway Arch

Built in 1968 (high-tech architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

From the record

“The Gateway Arch is a 630-foot-tall (192 m) monument in St. Clad in stainless steel and built in the form of a weighted catenary arch, it is the world's tallest arch and Missouri's tallest accessible structure.”
Wikipedia article Gateway Arch, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 663 National Register listings published here for St. Louis County · listed in 1987 · category: Structure · built in 1968, high-tech architecture, by Eero Saarinen.

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

The listing

Address. Memorial Dr. between Poplar St. & Eads bridges, St. Louis (Independent City), 63102
When was it listed? May 1987
Category. structure
When was it built? 1968
Architectural style. high-tech architecture
Architect. Eero Saarinen
National Register reference number. 87001423 - 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

1 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Gateway Arch in 2011, burning under an acre 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	1

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
17 December 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	79TH

Every fire recorded in St. Louis County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 58 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 58 workings within 5 miles of Gateway Arch: 52 past producers, 3 plants, 2 producers, 1 prospect. 5 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	Recorded
(Facility) Cerro Copper Sauget Smelter	Copper	Plant
(Facility) Sauget Zinc Refinery	Zinc, Refiner, Sulfur, Sulfuric Acid	Plant
Hypothetical Lead Mine	Lead, Silver, Zinc, Cobalt, Copper, Nickel, Cadmium	Prospect	Underground
Madison Plant	Thorium	Producer
Parker-Russell Fireclay Mine	Fire Clay (Refractory), Coal	Past Producer
Pfizer Inc. Mineral Pigments	Iron	Producer
Hydraulic Press Brick Co Mine No 3	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Past Producer
Hydraulic Press Brick Co Mine No 4	Clay	Past Producer
Hydraulic Press Brick Co Mine No.6	Clay	Past Producer
Hydraulic Press Brick Fireclay No 2	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
Jefferson National Expansion Memorial National Historic Site	0.2 miles	1966
Mansion House Center Historic District	0.3 miles	2016
International Fur Exchange Building	0.3 miles	1998
Laclede Building	0.3 miles	1998
American Zinc, Lead and Smelting Company Building	0.3 miles	1998
Eads Bridge	0.3 miles	1966

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 87001423 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.