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St. Louis on the Air
4:57 pm
Tue November 13, 2012

Envisioning Home: Film Details History Of Public Housing In St. Louis

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Daniel Blake Smith and Richard Baron talk outside the former Pruitt-Igoe public housing project
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Richard Baron and Jean King are interviewed outside the former Pruitt-Igoe public housing site
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Jean King and Richard Baron first met in 1968, when the two joined forces to protest conditions and rent hikes in St. Louis public housing.

Together, they earned a reputation as “imaginative leaders” and community advocates, attracting the attention of author/filmmaker Daniel Blake Smith.

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Business
6:50 pm
Fri October 12, 2012

Arlington Grove Development Providing Much-Needed Housing In North City

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William Ittner's Arlington School today (built in 1898)
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A historic St. Louis School building has a new lease on life as a new development in north city’s 22nd Ward.

The Arlington School, designed by pioneering St. Louis Architect William Ittner was built in 1898.  The school was closed in 1994 and fell into extreme disrepair.  I filed a story for NPR in 2009 about ten of Ittner's schools, including Arlington, which were facing uncertain futures.

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