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Happy 55th birthday to the Gateway Arch: See photos of its final piece being placed

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(National Park Service)

ST. LOUIS (KMOX) - Although The Gateway Arch didn't open to the public until June 1967, it was on Oct. 28, 1965 when the final piece of the 630-foot-tall monument was placed in the very top. 

Finnish-American architect Eero Saarinen won a design competition held in the late 1940s and created the "Gateway to the West" that became the tallest man-made monument in the U.S.


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