Aloe Plaza

This article has multiple issues. Please help or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these template messages) The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's notability guideline for geographic features. Please help to demonstrate the notability of the topic by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond a mere trivial mention. If notability cannot be shown, the article is likely to be merged, redirected, or deleted. Find sources:  –  ·  ·  · scholar · JSTOR (November 2011) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) This article does not cite any sources. Please help by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources:  –  ·  ·  · scholar · JSTOR (November 2011) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) (Learn how and when to remove this template message)

Aloe Plaza
Aloe Plaza across Market from Union Station
Type	Urban park
Location	St. Louis, Missouri, United States
Coordinates	38°37′48″N 90°12′28″W / 38.6299°N 90.2077°W / 38.6299; -90.2077Coordinates: 38°37′48″N 90°12′28″W / 38.6299°N 90.2077°W / 38.6299; -90.2077
Area	3.35 acres (1.36 ha)
Created	1931
Operated by	St. Louis Department of Parks, Recreation, and Forestry
Website	stlouis-mo.gov

Aloe Plaza is part of the Terminus section of the St. Louis Gateway Mall. It is two blocks in size and sits directly in front of Union Station. It is bounded by Market, Chestnut, 18th, and 20th streets.

The plaza was envisioned by Louis P. Aloe and made reality by his wife Edith Aloe in 1940.

Amidst all the projects and causes to which he was dedicated, their grandson Kenneth Aloe Marshall, held great personal devotion to the maintenance and improvement of the Aloe Plaza in downtown St. Louis throughout his lifetime.

The plaza is dominated by the Carl Milles fountain The Meeting of the Waters. The fountain represents the coming together of the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers alongside 17 mythical creatures standing for tributaries. In Ken’s life, the fountain also came to represent a convergence of his greatest passions - history, art, engineering, St Louis, and family.

Source: The family in a September 2017 obituary for Kenneth Aloe Marshall at http://rindskopfroth.com/roth/index.php?r=obituary/view&id=575