Missouri
Botanical Garden
314-577-5100
Known as Shaw's Garden to St. Louisans, the Missouri Botanical Garden contains a formal English garden, traditional Japanese garden, Margaret Blanke Grigg Chinese garden, the Flower Trial Garden, greenhouses and extensive landscaping. The garden also features the Climatron Complex, water lily reflection ponds, the William T. Kemper Center for Home Gardening, located at 4344 Shaw Boulevard. Free parking on premises, as well as an extensive gift shop and restaurant with patio dining. Call GardenLine at 314-577-9400
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New Monsanto Research Center Opens
The new $19.4 million, 79,000 square-foot Monsanto Rsearch Center, designed by St. Louis architecture firms Christner, Inc. in association with Louis R. Saur & Associates, Inc., features a "green architecture" using environmentally-friendly technology and recycled and recycable materials. 1998 © all photos SLFP.com
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Visitors listen to P. Mick Richardson, Ph.D., F.L.S., Manager of Graduate Students, explain the scientific research operations of the new Monsanto Research Center, including its extensive herbarium (right photo above) which contains more than 4.5 million specimens.
Spacious research library contains over 121,000 volumes, including 8,000 volumes in the Garden's Rare Book Collection.
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ST. LOUIS, (SLFP.com), March 14, 1998 - The new $19.4 million, 79,000 square foot modular Monsanto Center houses the Missouri Botanical Garden's research enterprise, including its herbarium with more than 4.5 million plant specimens, and research library.
St. Louis architecture firms Christner, Inc. in association with Louis R. Saur & Associates, Inc. designed a "green architecture" featuring environmentally-friendly technology and recycled and recycable materials. The lobby of the four-story brick and glass building features tree-shaped columns made from plantation-grown tropical trees and flooring from wood blocks of end-grain fir from the door manufacturing industry.
As part of the "earthquake-proof" design, the entire building rests on 42 shock-absorbing base isolators fastened to pillars reaching into bedrock below the fountain. The Center is located a block and a half west of the 79-acre Garden, in a commercial-industrial district near the residential area known as Southwest Garden neighborhood.
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