This is a photograph of the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri.
The structure was built as a monument to Thomas Jefferson and all those pioneers for who St. Louis was the Gateway to the West. The Gateway Arch project started in February 1963 and the last piece put into place on October 28,1965. It was open to the public on July 1967. The Arch is 630 feet, 63 stories, 192 meters tall. It is 17 feet wide at the top. Arch weigh is 17,246 tons. The architect was Eero Saarinen who won a national competition and the prize of designing the memorial in 1947.

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