private schools
As the City’s population expanded, so did the number of parochial schools. St. Elizabeth’s Academy, at Tennessee and Crittenden, in the Tower Grove East neighborhood, was constructed in 1882. The three-story red brick building is similar in design to the Evangelical Bethlehem Lutheran School of Period I, with a central projecting bay containing the entry, extending the full height of the building to end in a high pyramidal roof. The central bay carries most of the building’s decoration: paired windows under segmental arches have stone imposts and keystones at second and third stories, and corner pilasters. The symmetrical blocks of the building on either side have windows set beneath Tudor arches, and a corbel table at the parapet. (St. Louis, 1995)