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Your Legacy: Leave a legacy that will last for generations by including the Foundation in your estate planning.

Planning for the future and creating the legacy you wish to leave is one of the most effective ways to ensure a lasting impact. By including Gateway Arch Park Foundation in your will, trust, or as a beneficiary designation, you help ensure that future generations will make lifelong memories in and around Gateway Arch National Park. Some of the most impactful gifts you can make are deferred gifts that will be fulfilled at a later date.

If you would like more information on legacy giving at Gateway Arch Park Foundation, please click the button below or contact legacy@archpark.org.

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All requests and discussions are confidential and without obligation.

Ways to make a Legacy Gift

There are many ways to make a planned gift.

Planned gifts to Gateway Arch Park Foundation may be designated to a specific program, directed to our endowment or given to provide support where it is needed most. We encourage you to contact a member of the Foundation to discuss the designation of your planned gift.

Disclaimer: This site is informational and educational in nature. Gateway Arch Park Foundation does not provide legal, accounting or tax advice. You should consult with your attorney or tax advisor to determine the benefits and risks of any planned gift. The information on this website about gifts to Gateway Arch Park Foundation is not intended to be used to avoid tax liability.

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Your Enduring Commitment: Luther Ely Smith Legacy Society

When you include Gateway Arch Park Foundation in your estate plan, your generosity benefits Gateway Arch National Park and its surrounding spaces by investing in its long-term resilience, bringing its history to life, and ensuring the Park is integral to the life of our city. Because the Arch is more than a monument. It’s a symbol of who we are. Those who have a documented provision for Gateway Arch Park Foundation in their estate plans are recognized through the Luther Ely Smith Legacy Society.

A Prominent St. Louis Civic Leader, Luther Ely Smith

Born in 1873, Smith was originally from Illinois and graduated from Washington University School of Law. Described by the National Park Service as the “father of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial” which we know today as Gateway Arch National Park, he first proposed a riverfront memorial for President Thomas Jefferson. A civic booster and lawyer, Smith led the committee that planned and executed the vision of building a monument on the St. Louis Riverfront. Smith was part of the team that chose Eero Saarinen’s iconic Gateway Arch design. Recognized for being a visionary thinker who strategically steered major civic projects to completion, Luther Ely Smith left a lasting impact on St. Louis.  

“It was your design, your marvelous conception, your brilliant forecast into the future, that has made the realization of the dream possible – a dream that you and the wonderful genius at your command and the able assistance of your associates are going to achieve far beyond the remotest possibility that we had dared visualize in the beginning.”
- Luther Ely Smith (written to Eero Saarinen, designer of the Arch)

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