Kingsway West, St. Louis

William Cullen McBride High School (commonly McBride High School) was a Catholic college preparatory school for boys in St. Louis, Missouri. Operated by the Society of Mary within the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of St. Louis, the school opened in 1925 and served approximately 7,500 students before closing in 1971.

Hawthorn Leadership School for Girls was a public all girls' charter middle and high school in Saint Louis, Missouri. It was chartered by Washington University in St. Louis and has a focus on science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). It is Missouri's first public girls' school.Mary Stillman, one of the daughters of John Danforth and an alumna of all girls' schools, had conceptualized Hawthorn.In August 2015 it opened 130 students in grades 6 and 7. A new grade will be added each year until it gets grade 12.. The school shut its doors in August 2023, citing declining enrollment.

Kingsway East is a neighborhood of St. Louis, Missouri. The neighborhood is generally defined by Natural Bridge on the North, Martin Luther King on the South, Marcus Avenue on the East, and Kingshighway on the West.

St. Louis Truck Assembly was a General Motors automobile factory that built GMC and Chevrolet trucks, GM "B" body passenger cars, and the 1954–1981 Corvette models in St. Louis. Opened in the 1920s as a Fisher body plant and Chevrolet chassis plant, it expanded facilities to manufacture trucks on a separate line. During World War II, the plant produced the DUKW amphibious vehicles for the military. Another expansion was added for the Corvette line in 1953. On August 1, 1980, the Caprice/Impala assembly line was closed, contributing to the plant's closing in 1986. During the 1981 model year, Corvette production ended and shifted to Bowling Green Assembly Plant in Kentucky Thereafter, the factory only manufactured R- and V-series crew cab and cab/chassis trucks before that output was moved to GM's Janesville Assembly. Automobile production and maintenance workers were transferred from the closed truck line to the new Wentzville Assembly in 1986 which produced Buick and Oldsmobile front wheel drive replacements for the old rear wheel drive B Body cars. At its peak, the plant had 35,000 employees producing 560 vehicles per day. A total of 6,3 million were produced at St. Louis Truck Assembly.The plant closed on August 7, 1986, its future essentially sealed when GM closed the Caprice/Impala assembly on August 1, 1980 and began developing a new factory, Wentzville Assembly — a then-state of the art, 3.7 million square foot plant on 569 acres approximately 40 miles west of St. Louis, just off of I-70. As of 2022, the Union Seventy Center, a 161-acre industrial warehouse, stands where the former factory operated.

Wells/Goodfellow is a neighborhood of St. Louis, Missouri. The borders of the neighborhood are defined by the St. Louis city limits on the north-western edge, Dr. Martin Luther King Drive to the south-west, Natural Bridge Avenue to the north-east, and Union Boulevard to the south-east.

Academy/Sherman Park is a neighborhood in North St. Louis, just outside Central West End. The official boundaries of the area are Dr. Martin Luther King Drive on the north, Delmar Boulevard on the south, North Kingshighway Boulevard on the east, and Union Boulevard on the west.As of 2020, there were 2,355 people residing in this neighborhood, which contained 1,276 housing units. The racial makeup of the neighborhood was 4.97% White, 87.26% Black, 1.10% Asian, 1.15% from some other race, and 5.27% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 2.29% of the population. Sally Benson grew up in the Academy neighborhood. She described her childhood in her novels that inspired the film Meet Me in St. Louis. The Benson house at 5135 Kensington Avenue no longer exists. After being sold, it fell into disrepair, eventually became uninhabitable, and was demolished in 1994.Tennessee Williams attended Soldan High School in the neighborhood and used it as a setting for his play The Glass Menagerie.

Fountain Park is a neighborhood of St. Louis, Missouri, United States. Originally the Aubert Place subdivision, it was laid out by John Lay in 1857. The Fountain Park neighborhood is located in north St. Louis with Martin Luther King Drive on the north, Delmar Boulevard on the south, Walton Avenue on the east, and Kingshighway Boulevard on the west. It is just two blocks north of the Central West End (CWE) of the city. The Fountain Park neighborhood is named after Fountain Park, a small oval-shaped city park near its center. A Martin Luther King Jr. statue sculpted by Rudolph Edward Torrini is situated on the west side of the park. The park at the neighborhood's center hosts large Juneteenth celebrations since the mid-2000s. The space was reserved for a public park in 1857 and was donated to the city by John Lay in 1889. The fountain in its center was given by the Merchants Exchange. Residents and supporters participate in the Operation Brightside clean-up and the National Night Out.

Mark Twain/I-70 Industrial is a neighborhood of St. Louis, Missouri. It is bound by I-70 to the north, North Kingshighway to the east, Natural Bridge Road to the south, and the city limit to the west.

The Shelley House is a historic house at 4600 Labadie Avenue in St. Louis, Missouri. Built in 1906, this duplex was the focus of the 1948 United States Supreme Court case Shelley v. Kraemer, which ruled that judicial enforcement by state courts of racially restrictive covenants violated the Constitution. The house was designated a National Historic Landmark on December 14, 1990.

A mass shooting occurred at an ABB power plant in St Louis, Missouri, on January 7, 2010. An ABB Power employee, armed with multiple firearms, killed three and injured five others (two critically) and killed himself before police arrived.

Hamilton Heights is a neighborhood of St. Louis, Missouri. The neighborhood is bounded by Dr. Martin Luther King Drive (co-signed with Missouri Route 180) on the Northeast, the city limits (border with Wellston, Missouri) on the Northwest, Page Avenue on the South, and Union Boulevard on the East.

Lewis Place is a neighborhood of St. Louis, Missouri. Lewis Place is defined by Martin Luther King Drive on the North, Delmar Boulevard on the South, Newstead Avenue on the East, and Walton on the West.