Aviation Field
Aviation Field is a memorial in St. Louis, St. Louis Area, Missouri. Aviation Field is situated nearby to the pitch Softball Field #4, as well as near Softball Field #1.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Jewel Box and Saint Louis Science Center.
Jewel Box
Garden
Photo: Marcus Qwertyus, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Jewel Box is an Art Deco display greenhouse in Forest Park, St. Louis, Missouri. Designed by William C. E. Becker and completed in 1936 with Public Works Administration support, it replaced earlier seasonal greenhouse displays and became a permanent floral conservatory.
Saint Louis Science Center
Museum
Photo: AfricanGeo, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Saint Louis Science Center, founded as a planetarium in 1963, is a collection of buildings including a science museum and planetarium in St. Louis, Missouri, on the southeastern corner of Forest Park. Saint Louis Science Center is situated 1,700 feet southeast of Aviation Field.
Saint Louis Art Museum
Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The Saint Louis Art Museum is an art museum located in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. With paintings, sculptures, cultural objects, and ancient masterpieces from around the world, its three-story building stands in Forest Park in St. Louis, Missouri, where it is visited by up to a half million people every year. Saint Louis Art Museum is situated 1¼ miles northwest of Aviation Field.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kings Oak and Cheltenham.
Kings Oak
Neighborhood
Kings Oak is a neighborhood of St. Louis, Missouri. The neighborhood is named for two of its streets that make up the neighborhood's boundaries. "Kings" comes from Kingshighway Blvd, the neighborhood's eastern border and "Oak" comes from Oakland Ave, the neighborhood's northern border.
Cheltenham
Neighborhood
Photo: Paul Sableman, CC BY 2.0.
Cheltenham is a neighborhood of St. Louis, Missouri. It is bound by Forest Park on the north, Macklind on the east, Manchester Avenue on the south, and Hampton Avenue on the west.
Clayton–Tamm, St. Louis
Neighborhood
Clayton–Tamm is a historic St Louis neighborhood and once an Irish-American enclave located near the western border of St. Louis, Missouri, USA, just south of Forest Park.
Aviation Field
- Type: Memorial
- Inscription: “Forest Park’s Aviation Field was established on August 16, 1920 to provide a landing strip for airmail service between Chicago and St. Louis. This function ended on June 30, 1921 following federal budget reductions...”
- Category: historic site
- Location: St. Louis, St. Louis Area, Missouri, Midwest, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
38.63168° or 38° 37′ 54″ northLongitude
-90.27523° or 90° 16′ 31″ westOpen location code
86CFJPJF+MWOpenStreetMap ID
node 13708204665OpenStreetMap feature
historic=memorial
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