Charles Nagel Jr. (1899 –1992) was a Saint Louis, Missouri architect, curator, and museum director.
He attended Yale University, where he earned three degrees, culminating with an M.F.A.
He was employed at the Saint Louis architectural firms of Jamieson & Spearl and Hall & Proetz, and with Coolidge, Shepley, Bulfinch, Abbott in Boston, and later the firm of Nagel & Dunn in Saint Louis.
At the Brooklyn Museum, Nagel co-organized a major exhibition of Italian design—"Italy at Work: Her Renaissance in Design Today[1]"—which traveled to twelve U.S. museums from 1950 to 1953.
[3] Nagel served as juror and secretary of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial Competition, which led to the selection of the Gateway Arch design.