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Wingmann Park sits on a triangular plot of land formed by intersecting street grids. When the village of North St. Louis was initially laid out, the streets were oriented toward the river. Due to a bend in the Mississippi, the grid intersected with the streets of the City of St. Louis at an odd angle, forming numerous irregularly shaped parcels of property on the neighborhood's southern edge. A similar effect was produced here on the neighborhood's western edge where the village grid collided with a street system based on the layout of St. Louis's common fields. For many years, four row houses occupied this tract of land. In the early 1980s, after the last of these homes had been demolished, the Old North St. Louis Restoration Group began to convert the vacant parcel into a landscaped park. The park was named in honor of Jeanne Wingmann, a much beloved teacher who taught fourth grade at Ames Elementary School for 47 years and then continued to volunteer her time to the school library for another 19 years. With friends and former students in attendance, the park was dedicated on April 1, 1995, her ninetieth birthday. The plot is still maintained by resident volunteers.

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