Cast
Sam Moore
Sam Moore is alderman of St. Louis City’s 4th ward, and anti-brick theft activist.
read moreRobert Archibald
As president of the Missouri Historical Society, Dr. Robert R. Archibald transformed a traditional historical organization into a nationally recognized model of a community-oriented institution. In 1994 MHS received the first National Award for Museum Service for its role as a model for programs that use history as context for today’s concerns and exhibits that engage the public in exploring the relationship between people and their physical environment, their institutions, and each other’s diversity. Archibald has made the Missouri...
read moreBob Corbett
Bob Corbett is a retired professor from Webster university and founder and former president of the Dogtown Historical Society.
read moreMichael Allen
Architectural historian Michael Allen has conducted historic resource surveys, written National Register nominations and provided technical expertise professionally for over six years. From 2005 through 2009, he was employed by Landmarks Association of St. Louis, where he served as Assistant Director from 2007 through 2009. He founded Preservation Research Office in September 2009. Michael has lectured at Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis University and Fontbonne University, among other places across the region. Michael has...
read moreLarry Giles
Larry is president of the St. Louis Building Arts Foundation and has worked to salvage many of St. Louis’s lost buildings for nearly 40 years.
read morePaul Hohmann
Paul Hohmann is an Architect specializing in historic rehabilitation in St. Louis.
read moreNini Harris
NiNi Harris (sister of Shelia Harris) got her first St. Louis history lessons around the kitchen table as her grandmother made chocolate cakes from scratch. “On Sunday mornings she went to 6 a.m. Mass, and then she’d come back and start baking,” Harris said. “I associated history with chocolate because we’d lick the spatulas as she told stores about what life was like growing up in Soulard.” Harris, 57, has made it her mission and her living to preserve those stories. She’s written nine books that...
read moreShelia Harris
Shelia is a retired teacher and currently a local St. Louis artist who works in water colors.
read moreMimi Garstang
Mimi Garstang was Division Director and Missouri State Geologist for the Missouri Department of Resources, Division of Geology and Land Survey from 1979 to 2008.
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About Brick By Chance and Fortune
St. Louis is a city with a rich heritage of brick architecture. Home to some of the largest and most innovative clay working companies of the nineteenth century, you can still see some of the finest examples of brick work ever produced all over the city and region. Today the city's brick heritage is under threat by neglect, brick theft and urban renewal.
