The importance is that the National Parks service thought that recognizing that St Louis was the gateway to the west was important enough to build and maintain a park and national monument at the Arch site.
It's a landmark / tourist trap. It supposedly symbolizes the "gateway to the west" starting with the Louis & Clark expedition, to which there is a museum underneath the arch.
it symbolizes the gateway to the west.
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The St. Louis Gateway Arch was designed by architect Eero Saarinen and structural engineer Hannskarl Bandel in 1947.
St. Louis You would find the Gateway Arch in St. Louis.
Well its called the Gateway Arch and St. Louis is the Gateway to the West theres your answer hope its useful!
The Arch in St. Louis is at 200 Washington Ave, Gateway Arch, St. Louis,
The Gateway arch is in St Louis, Missouri
The Gateway Arch in St Louis
Construction on the Gateway Arch in St. Louis was completed in 1965.
The Official name of the St. Louis Arch is the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial. It is often called the Gateway arch.
Gateway to the West. jkernan
St. Louis Missouri
ST. Louis, Missouri
In St. Louis, Missouri.