Hi-Pointe, St. Louis — Area Guide & Where to Stay

What are the main landmarks in Hi-Pointe?

Hi-Pointe gathers its landmarks along McCausland Avenue and Clayton Avenue. The Hi-Pointe Theatre, a single-screen house opened in 1922, is the oldest continuously operating movie theatre in St. Louis. Dewey School, a Rockwell M. Milligan design from 1917, faces Clayton Avenue on the northern boundary.

Above the junction of Skinker Boulevard and Clayton Road rises the largest Amoco sign in the world, visible from Interstate 64. Forest Park opens beyond it. The Saint Louis Art Museum belongs to that park, as does the Missouri History Museum, and neither stands inside Hi-Pointe.

What is the history of Hi-Pointe?

Hi-Pointe was once counted part of Cheltenham, the clay tract on the western rim of the city, where fire-brick and tile works stood beside a tourist hotel and health spa. Clay came before houses. Farming, a goat farm, and a small airport landing field each held the ground in turn, and building filled in after the world's fair of 1904 opened in Forest Park just to the north.

James McCausland opened a tract along the western line in 1859, and McCausland Avenue still carries his name. The Hi-Pointe Theatre followed in 1922.

Where is Hi-Pointe?

Hi-Pointe runs from Clayton Avenue south to Dale Avenue, held between Louisville Avenue and the city limits at Richmond Heights. Forest Park lies over the north line.