In 1905, surveyor Julius Pitzman, also the designer of Forest Park, was hired to lay out Parkview.

His elegant design for the 70-acre (0.28 km2) neighborhood includes a partly symmetrical arrangement of gently curved streets and parks.

Curving streets in residential subdivisions was unusual for the period, and in Parkview they were “soothing and peaceful” to the eye.

They added privacy as the streets curve gently out of sight, and they diminished the monotony of the continuous building setback.

The list includes Missouri Governor Henry Caulfield; St. Louis mayor Bernard Dickmann; University City mayors Heman, Flynn and Cunningham; artists Bessie Lowenhaupt, Aimee Schweig, Jane Pettus, Edmund Wuerpel and Gustav Goetch; writers Stanley Elkin and William Gass; aviation great General James (Jimmy) Doolittle; baseball players George Sisler and Bob Gibson; and film maker Charles Guggenheim.