These include gracefully curved streets to create a pleasant vista and reduce traffic flow. Several unique features were incorporated into his design. The Compton Heights subdivision, embracing Hawthorne and Longfellow Boulevards and adjacent blocks between Grand and Nebraska was laid out in 1888 by Julius Pitzman to correct errors he made in designing Vandeventer Place.
The Compton Reservoir was completed in 1871, as the city's population continued to expand. In 1855, the city limits were expanded to include this area, just Southwest of downtown. This prairie, dotted with springs, limestone outcroppings, and rolling hills first belonged to prominent St. Compton Heights occupies the Northwest corner of what was previously the Saint Louis Commons – its initial land partition was received in the 1850s. Never intended to be sold since it was held in common, its boundaries were not fixed because its area expanded as the population of St. This tract was owned by all the villagers in common for the purposes of cutting firewood, pasturing livestock and hunting game. East of the Prairie des Noyers (the present site of the Missouri Botanical Gardens) was another large tract of land known as the Saint Louis Commons. Louis Common Field, Grande Prairie, Cul de Sac Prairie, and Prairie des Noyers. Four major cultivating fields surrounded early Saint Louis: the St. Its habitants lived within the confines of a fortified village and traveled each day to their prairie or cultivation fields, sometimes several miles away. In the 1760s, the village of Saint Louis resembled a medieval town in Europe.
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