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	The Woman's National Daily Building, designed by Herbert C. Chivers, was built by Edward Gardner Lewis for his newspaper venture. It was also known as the Egyptian Building. The exterior was finished in Georgian marble with copper cornices. In this photograph, the skylight almost the length of the building is visible on the roof. Trinity Avenue, on the west, ends in a field just south of Washington Avenue. Washington University's buildings are visible in the distance.
	Acquisition of property for what would become Parkview began as early as 1901 by the Parkview Realty and Development Company. Beredith Realty Company was the developer, and the area was often referred to as the Beredith Tract. The Parkview plat was filed in 1905. In this photograph taken looking east from the Park Hotel in 1906 two houses are under construction on Washington Avenue. In the foreground, west of Westgate Avenue, is the Parkview nursery where trees and plants were raised for use throughout the subdivision.
	Acquisition of property for what would become Parkview began as early as 1901 by the Parkview Realty and Development Company. Beredith Realty Company was the developer, and the area was often referred to as the Beredith Tract. The Parkview plat was filed in 1905. This photograph was taken looking east from the Park Hotel in late 1907 or early 1908. Westgate Avenue is in the foreground. Washington Avenue is on the left and Westminster Avenue is on the right. Several houses have been completed on both streets.
	This photograph was taken looking east toward the Woman's Magazine Building and toward the Italian Renaissance Revival mansion, stables and carriage house that belonged to Jackson Johnson. The house stood at the corner of Delmar Boulevard and Pennsylvania Avenue (now Big Bend Boulevard). Johnson was one of University City's first aldermen. Washington Avenue, which had just recently been laid out, curved south around the Johnson property.
	Until about 1910, much of Washington Avenue in University City was still dirt road. In this photograph, curbs and sidewalks have been constructed on the north and south sides of Washington, west of Pennsylvania (now Big Bend), and trees have been planted, but the street itself remains to be graded and paved. The Jackson Johnson mansion, carriage house and stable are on the left. Johnson was one of University City's first aldermen.
	This photograph was taken about 1910 from an upper story of the Jackson Johnson mansion on Delmar Boulevard. This is the southwest corner of the Johnson property and shows the octagonal carriage house and a corner of the roof of the stable. Washington Avenue is almost diagonally left to right across the center of the photograph. Vasser Avenue, the western boundary of the Johnson property, intersects Washington from the right, and Williams Avenue intersects farther west from the left. Washington Avenue dead ended at the boundary of the Creveling farm. The Creveling farm houses and barns are in the distance on the right, and other structures are at center left.
	Edward Gardner Lewis selected this piece of property on the south side of Delmar Boulevard across from the Woman's Magazine Building as the site for the new building for the People's United States Bank. When the Bank was thrown into receivership 1905, plans for the intended building were adapted for use as the publishing plant for Lewis' newspaper venture, "The Woman's National Daily." The house on the upper left is facing Washington Avenue. The curved path in the dirt on the right was graded for Trinity Avenue.
	This photograph was taken about 1910 from an upper story of the Jackson Johnson house on Delmar Boulevard. This elegant stable was just southwest of the house, and adjacent to Washington Avenue which was the south boundry of the Johnson property. Property to the south in this photograph was mostly farmland. A cow and two chickens are wandering in the yard.

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