St. Louis-Old-World-Rome of the West (On-Site!) 

I’ve stayed at the St. Louis Union Station Hotel, several times. I can honestly say it’s one of the most breathtaking buildings I’ve ever step foot in, and it really makes you think you’re stepping back in time when you enter the main hall. One thing that’s very interesting though, is that during the evening when the bar is open in the main gallery, they have a light show that plays every hour or so, which is really cool. But what struck me as particularly interesting was the brief “American Pride” movie they project against one of the walls during the light show. The movie shows many scenes from the late 1800’s-early 1900’s which may seem innocent enough to the average viewer, but as a researcher of the “old world/hidden history” theory (Tartarian architecture as some call it), I couldn’t help but wonder if the real purpose of the movie is to drive home the point that “We, the founders, built all this stuff!!”. In other words, indoctrination. Maybe I’m wrong, but it’s an interesting side note. Great video as always! 👍

I cannot understate that once your eyes are open to this information there is no going back, all these cathedrals were clearly built by the same people all over the world, I live in cork, Ireland, and even here, we have cathedrals like this, that make no sense. I have added the cathedral basilica to my list of buildings to visit :)

Saint Louis, pray for us, that we may recognize, respect, and restore the beauty of this sacred but shattered city bearing your name and blessed by your heavenly patronage.

The City Museum in St Louis has lots of ornamentations from buildings that have been torn down. One room was full of antique door knobs and hinges.

I'm a native of St. Louis. Born and raised, but followed a wandering streak that took me far away. It was great seeing my home city again, and you did a great job displaying it to the world. I'm at time maker 24.-0 on the video and I wanted to respond to your ponderance of the amount of large foundation stones and brick on both residential and commercial buildings. Missouri sits partially on one of the largest limestone belts in the world. it's called the Burlington Limestone Belt.- here's where you get all of your limestone foundational stones and limestone building blocks. Also, within 100 miles of St. Louis there are a ton of clay mines - hence bricks which are a accessible and cheap building material. Hope I answered your questions on why some many places in St. Louis are build from limestone and brick.

I visit St. Louis once a month. Have for years and I’m still overwhelmed every time. Even the cemetery’s

TY for this incredible video! I am from near Toledo, Ohio, and almost every city in the midwest I have ever visited, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, St. Louis ALL have AMAZING architecture, predominantly in the downtown areas with beautiful brick constructed homes. Even the smallest Midwest towns have awesome architecture. We just have to have the eyes to see and appreciate. Thank you again, love your work ❤

Yup..I AGREE!! THOSE HOMES ARE BEAUTIFUL!! I TOTALLY COULD SPEND DAYS JOGGING 👟.. AND ADMIRING SUCH GORGEOUS STRUCTURES!! 🌞🌠🙂🙃😁!! Who ever born in St. Louis.. wow!!

OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!beautiful! Thank you very much for showing us!

I've Lived and worked my whole life in st.louis.Great Video! This is a Prime example of what a trade school produces along with the team work and Faithfull Adults building a future for those people and thier families to come.BLESSED!

I live in St. Louis and worked on a brick crew for a few years. St. Louis brick is very desirable. When buildings come down it is not uncommon to have the reclaimed brick shipped out to places like Los Angeles to be used to build mansions. While there are an enormous variety of brick, typically speaking walls made with new brick just seems less appealing than walls, new or old, made with what we in St. Louis call "city brick". There is so much brick construction here that I have always thought of it as Brick City USA. There have been many amazing buildings torn down. There are amazing buildings sitting around in this city just rotting. The Northside of the city has been the ghetto side for a long time. They have been "revitalizing" these neighborhoods and in the process tearing down loads of old architecture.

I grew up in N. St. Louis at 4308 Blair Ave. down the street from the Bissell water tower. Lot’s of good memories from N. St. Louis. There are many buildings of old world architecture. St. John’s church at Grand Ave. and Lee Ave. is another building worth checking out! The Fox theater is beautiful inside and out. You are correct in saying everywhere you look is old world architecture! Forrest Park is amazing also! Yes, you could spend a lifetime exploring St. Louis. Thank you for your thoughtful videos! Keith

On my list now is to travel from Saint Lucie to Saint Louis to personally take this all in! Thank You!

As a Saint Louisan, I’m bookmarking this to watch later! Thanks for giving our history more attention!

Back in St. Louis. Yay! Love to see how thorough you are, Mr. Aurelian.

Thank you for being on the ground and thank you for this video. That was a lot of eye candy. One thing I've noticed, while looking for a house in the midwest, is that house flippers have gone into a lot of those old world smaller houses and stripped them of any glory and painted them all grey and the wood white. They've even removed fireplaces. House flippers must be the minion demons of the controllers. However, the larger homes look like museums and are untouched. They are remarkable.

These images are mind blowing. I've only been there once, and it seemed very old and had such an amazing vibe. There is definitely something old world about St Louis

It kind of reminded me of the Paris of the west. I didn’t realize that it was called Rome of the west. The Union Station building is SPECTACULAR! And so is the Cathedral Basilica! It’s enormous and the inside is breathtaking.

*I have lived in St Louis since 1985, so I have some first hand experience. The reason that everything here is made of brick is because of the clay content of the soil here. When I finally bought a house I fully understood just how bad it is: if you put a shovel in the ground here, you'll come up with weeds growing in the very red clay "soil". It's so bad that I had to get real soil trucked in to cover the property.* *Union Station, as pretty as it is, is just a shadow of it's former (pre-1986) self, still it's staggeringly beautiful when you look closely. U/S strongly reminds me of New York City's Grand Central Station - their designs and execution are very very similar. The design of Grand Central allows you (or used to allow you, before they locked it down) to walk up a staircase and view the terminal from each height at the various landings, eventually allowing you to look through "peep holes" in the GCT cieling, looking down on the terminal's floor. A truly breathtaking view, which I used to visit regularly when I was a kid (1950s).*

LOVED this episode... Thanks to you, St Louis is now in my top 5 reset cities 🙏💪👊

Great show and information 🙂

That place makes my frikkn brain hurt..like you said ..St.Louis is overwhelming...more like one the best preserved Tartarian cityscapes..I think I said WTF a hundred times watching..Great Vid L.A..Cheers

Thank you for going boots on the ground for us. What they have taken away from us in terms of technology is truly mind boggling.

Brother it’s mind blowing how similar the houses and you drove by and all the buildings in the cathedrals and the domes on the inside and geometric shapes on the outside is exactly the same as Philadelphia, it all looks so similar so the buildings I walk by everyday. 🤙

Last European city going west the first old west town. You need to come back and visit Belfontain and Calvary cemeteies and visit all of the historic figures buried there.also visit Lemp mansion. I grew up in St.louis and was a EMT in the city so spent a lot of time learning the history and I'm still learning thank you

Amazing BOTG...very jealous my friend. I've been compiling a St Louis file and it's never ending....I've also heard a lot about the tunnels under St Louis. A true old world treasure. The texture on the union station motifs was very helpful...thanks for illustrating that. Bravo!!

Nicely done. Interesting my grandpa and his family went to the cathedral in 1919 story was it had just opened. Also check out the Budweiser Corp complex something there for sure.

The worlds fair out there was ridiculous

Great video! One place you really should have covered is Forrest Park. Largest city park in the US and contains the History Museum, Art Museum, Zoo, an an ice skating ring and lake with pavilions. All built for the 1904 Worlds Fair. Columns and arches everywhere.

The cathedral at the end was absolutely breathtaking !!! Great work St Louis hold some kind of big-time significance that were not told.

That city haall building is gorgeous.

I bussed across country last year and this place and Pittsburgh were most interesting to just see going through quickly, clearly very old

This whole video just blows me away. I want to move to st louis now just to learn.

I’ve lived here all my life. Check out st Charles Main Street as well sometime. Thank you for the video and commentary.

This video was the best! Definitely one of my favorites. Loved it all

Thank you 😊

Stifel used to be KEIL Auditorium. I saw Steppenwolf, Spirit, and especially RUSH in 1980 where they recorded an album. GREAT TIMES!

As always , very AWE inspiring boots on the ground video. Can't thank you enough.

When you hit that Grand Ave water Tower TURN AROUND. It goes from beautiful SLU to the ghetto in just 1 block

WOW !!! Thank you for the boots on the ground. Love the inside of Union station incredible

St. Louis is my Home City and birth place , I grew up Here . Thank you for Showcasing Some of Our Old-World city :) QC

What is that line in the sky on the clouds behind the water tower. No way the sky can cut into a straight line like that... Anyone see it? Great video... Thank u for letn us see st Louis.. The way u make ur videos as if we can be there. 🙏💖

To be honest the church took over the land and divided it into dioceses. St Louis had the mother church and that, along with having 2 basilicas and the prettiest church (voted) in America that also would be a basilica if we didn't already have 2. This is not to mention many many more beautiful churches in this area...thank u for your video.

I lived in St. Louis for a year 32 years ago. I wish I was cognizant of this stuff back then to go check out. I am in Indy now so looking into things here.

More Rome than Rome itself indeed.

I live near STL. Love a lot of the old buildings and architecture. We don't get a lot of coverage so thank you very much.

Awesome my friend. Best yet.

I own rental properties in St. Louis. I used to own one very close to the Compton Heights neighborhood you showed. We lived there and used to walk Hawthorn and Longfellow, also Russel next to the Tower Grove Water tower. Having done demolition and remodeling there, I am often astounded at the skill level of the masons, plasterers, and carpenters. Also, the wood is amazing. The Douglas fir that was used is extremely strong and rot resistant, one could argue better than pressure treated. Thank you for the video showing the beauty of the city.

I'm learning alot from you brother. I realized my court house down town is actually tartarian. Claims it was rebuilt 5 times since the 1840s but the top of the roof is so on point and wouldn't make sense how they built all of it in those days. Much love ❤

Next time you’re in St. Louis, you have to check out the old Post Office 815 Olive street downtown if you want something, that’ll totally blow your mind. This is it. The main floor is even a full story below current ground level. You may be able to find some pictures online, but it won’t do it justice. The place is unbelievable ancient exposed stone interior.

When they were doing renovations several years ago. I was able to go up to the top of that tower. It still has the original water tank up there and wooden stairs leading to the top

Just got home from a short trip to St.Louis this weekend. After watching this video a few weeks back it had inspired me to go see for myself. These presentations have really opened my eyes to the Old World and I'm led to believe we inherited it. Im a carpenter by trade and i have a strong understanding of the manpower, logistics, mechanical aids and time it takes to build a modern day project. We are extremly capable creatures. However, for a comparitively primitive people to build these ornate superstructures with such detail and scale to stand the tests of time i really begin to question the narrative.

GREAT VIDEO, Thank you So much 🙏🏻

28:15 I'm glad somebody has finally said out loud the part everyone has avoided saying. "Divine" . . . yes, of course. The whole world in His hands.

Fantastic tour. Interesting ideas. I remain unconvinced; my father is an 8th generation carpenter. His family tree is comprised of bricklayers and carpenters. Pop has a fantastic base of knowledge that was handed down through generations of tradesmen. He is very good at explaining the older techniques used to build some of these structures. I'm not saying your theories don't hold water, but an investigation into the histories of the building trades and trade unions within these cities would better inform you about the older techniques. And these guys want to share the knowledge of their trades. Still, I enjoy your videos and outside of the box thinking. I appreciate your willingness to challenge the existing historical record.

There are literally still farms out in the county that have been overgrown where I can find horse and buggies along with thousands of apple orchard baskets or bottles gallon jugs to 1800s farm equipment spread out all over a certain probably along Highway 55 at grants trail

Mounds inside STL are gone or hidden but just outside they preserved many of them

Excellent work!

I’m proud to live in St. Louis!

Hold on a sec, while I pick my jaw up off the floor. 😯🤯🤯 This was insane! I never knew St. Lewis was such a time capsule of mind-blowing architecture. Added to the list! Ty!!🙏

This is wild. The interior of that Cathedral is insane. So ornate. Such artisans.

had my graduation in the cathedral probably one of the coolest graduations I could’ve had

Thank you for showing love to St Louis, it really is a beautiful city and im bias when I say our Arch is the prettiest structure in all of the US, but we always get a bad rep because of how dangerous it is downtown, but the buildings are beautiful.

Excellent views !

I love this city! Used to frequent it often living nearby! I have always been obsessed with beautiful architecture! Now my husband feels it’s too dangerous to bring the children, so out of respect I haven’t brought them, but there is nothing more lovely than the stunning architecture in St Louis. It’s not the same in pictures, it’s literally breathtaking in person!

The city homes you drove us passed are know as “Chateauxesk”. Saint Louis at this time was dominantly a Germanic Anglo-Saxon population who brought their architectural tastes from their Homeland. Building in Brick was a standard of building in the 19th century and well into the 1950’s for domestic houses. These a bearing brickwork…..as it actually and properly holds up the entire structure. Balloon construction was also employed. The Greco-Roman as you reference to it was ultra modern for its day…all due to the Beaux Art Movement from 1889 to 1939. The last beaux Art building built in the USA are the Jefferson Memorial and the Supreme Court at Washington D.C. What I’m noticing about Saint Louis is all that is missing (torn down). The water towers were needed to gravitate water to the third and four foot of a house. The towers were constructed to look beautiful and “picture-esk”. Towers on the buildings of that time were also water towers for that building. There is an old water tank still up there (empty now) but needed for water pressure before City pumping stations were builded. What looks like wealth is/were family homes. All families had many many children once. 8 and 9 children was standard for any Denomination. Classical Architect was employed because it was to show the New World (the USA) was taking the Old World beauty with modern conveniences ie. hot water, electricity, gas, central heating, which all was ultra new at the time.

I love the Cathedral Basilica! My wedding was there

I love your videos and I must say that USA have more old buildings and so beautiful and amazing architecture. I live in Copenhagen and it’s much older than St. Louis and we have old buildings but not like St.Louis or other city in USA . I am so overwhelmed. The station are one of must beautiful station in the world.USA is much older than the history tells🇺🇸❤ Heini.Redcull 🇩🇰

Wow, this popped up in recommended videos for me. I’ve lived in St Louis my entire life and never looked at my city this way. So amazing!

yes, noo shortage of HIGHLY SKILLED LABOR.. Growing up in STL and going to church downtown we would see many of these buildings on a weekly bases. They ALWAYS left me in awe.

Grand Central 'in NYC has a small domed ceiling off the main floor where one can stand in opposite corners and whisper exactly like the "whispering arch".

Well done 👍

Great video. A+ content, love the channel

I haven't been this early in a while. Good Saturday y'all, I have done some scouting in old downtown Rio. There's an old world Romanesque aqua duct in Lapa, the waterfront is a leveled starfort, there are tons of tunneles, amazing old world buildings everywhere, the street level have probably been raised, there are probably forts cut into rock like Gibraltar, artificial islands, artificial shore lines. Brazil is certainly the old world, I believe that the black people were not all brought there as slaves, I think that thw survivors of the fall of Atlantis or the great flood settled there. There is even a modern building near Lapa that looks like a mini Tower of Babel. There are parts of the city that look like Paris even and there is an excuse that Napoleon took Rio for a time. Once I get my pictures together with some explanations I'll send them in. Love this community, good stuff.

Good informative video brother

My mothers fam has been there since it’s inception. Yep they are Catholic! My ancestors are buried in St Peter and Paul off Gravois rd. My grandma was Nancy Crane, my family pet care facility in High Ridge was started in 1963. Love it there!

Thank you

A lot of the bricks came from, what is now, the Tower Grove South neighborhood. The Russell family, for whom Russell Blvd is named in the Compton Heights neighborhood, mined coal in Tower Grove South and discovered tons of red clay. So they opened Oak Hill Fire Brick and Tile Works around 1855ish. This is where much of the building material came from.

Im in St. Louis Monday-Friday if you ever need footage or somebody to check something else.

good video much love

I do this is australia, in melbourne we have some wild old buildings. I have found repeating patterns in the rough stones so I believe nothing was cut it was all crushed and formed. I believe the images of people represent exactly what people in that society were at that point. They were so advanced the tooling would have all been pneumatic even larger digging machines and crushers. All scrapped and smelted before giving out a cart or two for a horse and start again. Compressing air can be done I so many different t and even simple ways and can power just about anything. There's no money in it I'm tipping that's why we burn stuff to move stuff now.

Nice, my former Hometown. St.Louis University POPE PIUS XII Library. Underneath is the Vaticans Second Library. Sssshhh.......

Thanks ❤awesome ❤

Beautiful video! I live in Milwaukee, WI and we have similar grand architecture and neighborhoods, including our own basilica. Another interesting city is Dubuque, IA, which has buildings made mostly of red brick throughout.

I lived in St. Louis area for a fair portion of my life since childhood. Never heard it being called this

I love those water towers, I lived across from the tower 1312 s grand

I used to maintain the Bogan building and the Vanguard apartments on Washington Ave. Very interesting buildings indeed.

Compton Hill reminds me of Sewickley PA where I grew up which is extremely rich and home of Mario Lemieux, Sidney Crosby, Ben Roethlisberger, Jack Ham and a lot of very old wealth

I’m here right now!! I can’t get in because I’m not staying at the hotel! So others remember this before you drive here. Thankfully I found a security guard who is going to let me in to take some pictures.

the Parc Pacific bldg next to the old courthouse . I worked there during renovation and theres 5 stories underground not counting the second floor which is store front Theres a huge Tunnnel on the bottom

Come back. U missed all the houses in Compton heights and the old post office armory downtown. There's so much more too.

I always consider Rome to be the case when it comes to these places, or whatever Rome actually was. Because I also think about our current world religions, and one of the most powerful occupies its own city-state right in the heart of Rome, not to mention the power that particular faction has wielded for centuries, and using its power to stamp out other people. Of course it goes deeper than that, but you always talk about something within the people, from the inside, to conquer them. And there isn't a force on Earth more powerful to do that than a person's belief, superstitions, or religion. Was it a malevolent force, or was it the people themselves. We underestimate the power of doctrine, forgetful of the witch-hunts and inquisitions, and seem to forget many in the old days were forced to accept dogma and regime be they religion or the conquerors or die by the sword. I couldn't say for certain whether it was Rome who had begotten the nation of what we call America way back when, it could have easily been Etruscan, or a faction not yet considered, and by this I do mean Tartaria regardless if that's what they called themselves. Recall the Romans came up with all kinds of names for other peoples of which they did not call themselves. Such it remains curious this thing we call the world, most of it we can see is probably not as it was originally, altered in some ways which we can't comprehend or more likely things which we cannot perceive because they are so totally commonplace that we don't even give them a second thought but to the trained eye, stick out like a sore thumb!

The blocks with black is a paint to keep the erosion down . It’s on St. Peter and Paul in soulard

The Grand Ave Water Tower is one of the buildings that got me interested in St. Louis history. Another was the Fairgrounds Park Bear Pits which looks like a medieval castle. Also, to answer your question about whether or not everyone in the Compton Heights neighborhood was wealthy, that’s exactly what happened. Compton Heights was a premier wealthy neighborhood for German immigrants, who made their fortunes in various industries, like beer brewing, wholesale groceries, banking, and other industries that made them quite wealthy. The more modest homes are further from the city center, in neighborhoods like Dutchtown And finally, as St. Louis expanded, the areas where bricks had previously been made from the clay mined out of the ground were built upon, and the brick manufacturing moved west. Most of the streets and alleys were paved with bricks as well.

it would be very intriguing to see inside top floor space of all these old buildings...since the top floor represents special, exceptional access...

Awesome video!!! I heard someone doing this alternative research was worked over in Kansas City. I sure hope that wasn't you??? You have balls to go walking around that area with the water towers.

Ended the episode in the Cathedral and didn't mention the fact that it's the world's largest collection of mosaics. Impressive.

The main gallery in Union Station was used as a setting in the movie "Escape from New York", along with other locations in St. Louis.

Old World Buildings. Muey Primo 💎 👀❤

The mounds are still around. Look at the neighborhoods and how they sit. Those Corinthian columns and that church is where my parents married. I have pics of that church inside.Ive been in that church tower. Ive been in the Bissle one too