Art Hill rises above the Grand Basin, and the Jewel Box glass greenhouse sits at Wells and McKinley Drives.
What Forest Park looks like
rises above the , a long pool with fountains and stone edges at the foot of the slope. The Saint Louis Art Museum stands at the top of the hill, in a three-story building dating from 1904. A newer wing by David Chipperfield sits beside it.
The sits where Wells and McKinley Drives meet, an Art Deco glass greenhouse from 1936. Its vertical glass walls rise in five stepped, flat-roofed tiers inside a wood and wrought-iron frame.
A columned bandstand with a green dome stands on an island at . Beyond , the towers of Barnes-Jewish Hospital rise above the trees.
is an open-air theater with 11,000 seats. From the air, its rows fan out in front of the stage, with parking laid out beside them.
The is on Government Drive. The has its name on a brick wall beside an arched brick gateway.
Pines and bare oaks stand at the edges of the open grass, and a paved path runs straight into the pines in low sun. A MetroLink train runs past highway ramps on a curve.
Shot in Forest Park
The zoo in Forest Park appears in Visiting St. Louis, a nine-minute MGM Traveltalk documentary released in February 1944. The film spends considerable time at the zoo, where it shows rhinoceroses and performing elephants.
Visiting St. Louis, 1944
Saint Louis Zoo
The zoo's miniature railroad runs beside a green-roofed pavilion on the grounds. The photograph is from 2010. It is not a frame from the 1944 film.
What Forest Park can double for
Fairmount in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The Philadelphia Museum of Art is the closest classical match, a stone museum on a hill at the northwest end of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway. Its main building was completed in 1928, and its entrances adapt Greek temple columns. The Grand Basin below Art Hill gives Forest Park away in a wide shot, with its long pool and fountains. Frame tight on the museum front instead. Try searching classical museum on a hill now.
Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, California
The Conservatory of Flowers is a Victorian glass house in Golden Gate Park, opened in April 1879. Its wood frame holds glass walls and a central dome nearly 60 feet high, with the panes lapping over one another like shingles. The Jewel Box's stepped Art Deco tiers give the building away in close shots. Frame the glass low and keep the roofline out of the picture. Try searching Victorian glass conservatory now.
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