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This project started by looking at the images and representations of St. Louis as portrayed by media and projected images like postcards. The presence and importance of St. Louis’ history was at the forefront of these representations which lead to questions of preservation and evolution. Then I visited the National Building Arts Center in Sauget, Illinois and was immediately interested in the relationship between the relics of the built environment being salvaged and stored in a site of such extreme and intense industry. The destructive creation, capitalism, and our city’s past with erasure and ideal representation created these realities present in Sauget. Further exploration of Sauget led me to the Cahokia Power Plant, named after Cahokia because during the plant’s founding Sauget did not exist as the Village of Monsanto yet. This research led to the additional information and images now archived in the appendix.