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Even though I grew up in St. Louis, I didn’t really appreciate all the wonderful brick schools until I was an adult. Now as I drive by one, I can’t

  William B. Ittner, the St. Louisan who revolutionized the construction of schools across the country, had an important connection to Kirkwood, as well as The Hill and Cheltenham neighborhoods of St. Louis. That connection had everything to do with bricks. As Gary Ross Mormino wrote in his book, “Immigrants on the Hill,” the Cheltenham District that supplied St. Louis and other cities across the country with brick became an important place of employment for Italian immigrants, many of whom settled in homes in The Hill neighborhood. The area’s rich deposits of clay ...