Published July 12, 2021 at 4:11 PM CDT Listen • 26:04 Michael Allen Larry Giles, seen here giving a tour of the National Building Arts Center, died June 12 at the age of 73.
Five years ago, Emery Cox was volunteering with the State Historical Society of Missouri when a friend alerted him to another treasure trove of regional history: the National Building Arts Center in Sauget, Illinois. Soon, Cox reached out about volunteering there as well.
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In 2004, the historic Century Building was demolished in downtown St. Louis. But not before Larry Giles (perched on façade) and associates salvaged what they could.
“[They asked me], ‘Hey, do you want to help us catalog some books?’ And it just went from there,” he recalled to
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