Eliza Haycraft Property — Block 131
Eliza Haycraft’s will lists property in St. Louis city block 131, one of a series of downtown holdings showing how concentrated her real-estate portfolio had become in the commercial core of nineteenth-century St. Louis.
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The most likely modern location of historical city block 131 in downtown St. Louis is the western section of Kiener Plaza (specifically the area that formerly housed the Morton D. May Amphitheater) within the urban green space corridor known as the Gateway Mall.
Historically, City Block 131 was defined by the following boundaries: Chestnut Street, Market Street, 6th Street (which was closed in 1986 to connect the Kiener Plaza sections), and 7th Street
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Sources
Eliza Haycraft will, St. Louis City Will Book J, pp. 147–148 (1867). Period St. Louis block-book mapping places Block 131 in the downtown 6th–7th Street / Market–Chestnut area.
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