Crunden-Martin Manufacturing Company

a.k.a. Conzelman-Crunden Realty Co.; Bowman Stamping Co. Swayzee Glass Co.

104 Cedar,760 S. 2nd St., 757 S. 2nd St., Saint Louis, MO
Local significance of the district:
Architecture; Industry

Listed in National Register of Historic Places in 2005.

The National Register of Historic Places is the official list of the Nation’s historic places worthy of preservation. Authorized by the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, the National Park Service’s National Register of Historic Places is part of a national program to coordinate and support public and private efforts to identify, evaluate, and protect America’s historic and archeological resources.

The famous Dred Scott case, which helped fuel the tensions that led to the Civil War, originated in Missouri. Dred Scott was a slave who sued for his freedom in the Missouri courts in 1857, but the U.S. Supreme Court ultimately ruled against him.