Lafayette Square Perspectives View 1 - North on Main & Court Sts.

Mid-1920's (population 506,755)
Looming at left is the Beaux-Arts Genessee Building (1923); visible in the distance is St. Louis Catholic
Church (1889). The west side of Main Street is occupied by the German Insurance Building (1876) at the image's right edge, and the William
Hengerer Company department store (1903) adjacent to it.

August 2002 (population 292,648) Noon.
Note the Genesee Building, now incorporated into the Hyatt Regency Hotel on the lot formerly occupied by the Victor building;
far up Main is the spire of St. Louis Catholic Church and the 'gold dome' of today's M&T Banking Center.

Link to Ben Maryniak's history of Soldiers & Sailors Monument (1882)

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