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St Louis Zoo Herpetarium?

Apr 23, 2006 16:16

Okay folks I'm bloody stumped here. I have a character whose deathly afraid of snakes and I was planning to use the St Louis Zoo Herpetarium as a setting for a story. I've physically been to the building before, it's a beautiful 1920's style building that has been massively renovated to house all the reptiles and of course they have an extensive ( Read more... )

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cygnia April 23 2006, 21:39:42 UTC

There's a virtual tour of the Herpetarium at this link:

http://www.stlzoo.org/yourvisit/thingstoseeanddo/historichill/herpetarium.htm

shadwing April 23 2006, 21:59:54 UTC

Yeah I found that but it doesn't cover the whole building...of if it does my PC isn't running the thing properly. x_x

conjure_lass April 23 2006, 22:00:15 UTC

I'm a native St. Louis girl...so if you need any information on the place just ask me. I can remember exactly what it looks like from front to back. Yep yep...hell i'll even go there this coming weekend (oh the torture) if you really want.

shadwing April 23 2006, 22:09:26 UTC

Thank you thank you! Can you remember if a map of the place even exists? Or at least tell me where the main snake displays are at? I seem to recall that they are in 1-2 areas with a few others scattered around the place, I also remember that it's at least 2 levels, I'd drive myself (I live in Kansas City) but with gas costs *winces* it seems kinda pricey to drive across the state for the info.

nwhepcat April 24 2006, 00:00:12 UTC

It may be worth a try to email them to ask for a floorplan. I did that with the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame, and got one in the mail. The strange thing was, it was a couple of years old, during the exact same time period the story was set.

So of course I thanked them by having a demon cult and a pair of ancient gods destroy the place, but that's the breaks in fiction, isn't it?

shadwing April 24 2006, 00:43:38 UTC

What a good idea, thanks! I'll try it.

And I hope the St Louis Zoo is equally as forgiving when I send rampaging superpowered beings rampaging though the place.

nwhepcat April 24 2006, 02:06:30 UTC

It's fun committing fictional mayhem with cultural icons, isn't it?

javaboy32 April 24 2006, 05:29:03 UTC

Not a monstrous help for you in terms of the Herpetarium's floor plan, but I imagine this site would help you overall.
LJ friend and utter architecture geek repowers has an aweosme site on the architecture of St. Louis over at Built St. Louis. As luck would have it, looks like he's taken photos of everything but the Herpetarium. :)
At any rate, I imagine it'd be a valuable resource for you. ;)