Tag: Tower Grove Park

I’m late! I’m late!

I’m late! I’m late!

Sketch time: 45 minutes.I  have been rushing around like the Mad Hatter in order to meet important professional deadlines and to complete mundane personal tasks ...

 

Piper Palm House, Tower Grove Park

Piper Palm House, Tower Grove Park

The oldest greenhouse west of Mississippi. According to the Tower Grove Park web site the Piper Palm House, built in 1878, is the oldest greenhouse west ...

 

Birthday party, Tower Grove Park

Birthday party, Tower Grove Park

Birthday party scene All kinds of get togethers are held under the Victorian pavilions in Tower Grove Park. I propped my sketchbook on a stone wall and ...

 

Tower Grove Park

Tower Grove Park

View from the car... I sketched the Humboldt North Pavilion from inside the car to stay warm. Winter has its on palette of colors that are ...

 

Roll over Beethoven…

Roll over Beethoven…

Tell Tchaikovsky the news! Busts of famous composers on granite columns surround the red-roofed Music Pavilion in Tower Grove Park. It is one of the park's thirteen Victorian pavilions ...

 

Lily Pond Pavilion, Tower Grove Park

Lily Pond Pavilion, Tower Grove Park

1872 pavilion There are thirteen ornate Victorian pavilions in Tower Grove Park dating from the 1870's.  Just about everyone in St. Louis has been to a picnic, ...