"The first time I ever saw St. Louis,
I could have bought it for six million
dollars, and it was the mistake of my
life that I did not do it."
Across Fourth Street from this location, teenager Samuel Clemens set type for the St. Louis Evening News in 1853. At different times, Clemens lived on nearby Pine, Locus and Chestnut Streets. He later became the greatest humorist in American literature, Mark Twain.
"If you send a damned fool to St. Louis,
and you don't tell them he's a
damned fool, they'll never find out."
—Life on the Mississippi
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