George B. Hartzog Jr.
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George Benjamin Hartzog Jr. was an American attorney and Director of the National Park Service.
NPS staff sitting on the set for the 1972 Centennial for the creation of the first National Park, in a NBC Today Show. George Hartzog is the first from left.
Gateway Arch
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The Gateway Arch is a 630-foot-tall monument in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. Clad in stainless steel and built in the form of a weighted catenary arch, it is the world's tallest arch and Missou
George B. Hartzog Jr.
…National Park Service. He moved to field assignments at Great Smoky Mountains and Rocky Mountain National Parks, and then made his name advancing the Gateway Arch project as superintendent of Gateway Arch National Park (then known as Jefferson National Expansion Memorial) from 1959 to 1962. After briefly leaving…
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The St. Louis riverfront after demolition
Saarinen working with a model of the arch in 1957
Arch construction in June 1965