More MCMs in the St. Louis blogosphere...

As I study the fights for and against mid century architecture preservation, I continually run across some sites that passionately advocate for the salvage of our "space age" construction.

Toby Weiss's B.E.L.T. has an excellent series of photographs and commentary on Overland's MCM stock. Some are quite impressive.

Steve Patterson's Urban Review St. Louis, which is currently guest editorials only due to his sudden illness (may he get better soon--St. Louis needs him!), features an editorial on what the role of the preservation community is in addressing threats to our mid century heritage. I particularly like the editorialist's suggestion that the former St. Louis Public Library Buder Branch, now the Record Exchange, at Hampton and Eichelberger be nominated to the National Register. See the (tiny) picture below.



Finally, St. Louis County has begun to recognize the value of its trove of MCM assets. You can read about their summary of modern architecture and their historic MCM sites here.