St. Louis has a famous monument known as the Gateway Arch that sits\u00a0in a national park\u00a0formerly known as Jefferson National Expansion Memorial, but was later renamed after the Gateway Arch. The park is\u00a0located\u00a0near a bridge over the Mississippi River that connect\u00a0Missouri to Illinois.\u00a0One important question is why was the Gateway Arch build?\u00a0The arch was the chosen winning design of a nationwide competition to design the memorial.\u00a0Around 1933,\u00a0someone envisioned that building a memorial on the riverfront would simultaneously revive the riverfront and stimulate the economy.\u00a0The national park and Gateway Arch are meant to commemorate Jefferson\u2019s Louisiana Purchase and his vision for westward expansion.\u00a0The Gateway Arch is an important and stunning piece of architecture\u00a0that was a significant feat, taking three years to complete.\u00a0Underneath the arch is a museum that covers more than 200\u00a0years’ worth\u00a0of history\u00a0regarding\u00a0the westward expansion that the arch was built to\u00a0represent.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
St. Louis has a famous monument known as the Gateway Arch that sits\u00a0in a national park\u00a0formerly known as Jefferson National Expansion Memorial, but was later renamed after the Gateway Arch. The park is\u00a0located\u00a0near a bridge over the Mississippi River that connect\u00a0Missouri to Illinois.\u00a0One important question is why was the Gateway Arch build?\u00a0The arch was the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":824,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sb_is_suggestion_mode":false,"_sb_show_suggestion_boards":false,"_sb_show_comment_boards":false,"_sb_suggestion_history":"","_sb_update_block_changes":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[30],"class_list":["post-4263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-place","post-preview"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/hum230sp26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/hum230sp26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/hum230sp26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/hum230sp26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/824"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/hum230sp26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/hum230sp26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4264,"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/hum230sp26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4263\/revisions\/4264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/hum230sp26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/hum230sp26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/hum230sp26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}