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Selma Hall
Historic American Buildings Survey, Creator, George I Barnett, and Nagel & Dunn. Exterior, Selma Hall, Crystal City, Jefferson County, MO. Missouri Crystal City Jefferson County, 1940....
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Anheuser Estate, Kimmswick
The Anheuser family had a country estate on the banks of the Mississippi just south of Kimmswick that is now a park. The house was originally built in 1867 but the Anheusers bought it in 1916. I...
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Windsor Harbor Bridge, Kimmswick
On the south side of Kimmswick is the Windsor Harbor Bridge, which is now completely closed to all traffic, after once being open to pedestrians. Originally placed in Carondelet up in St. Louis from...
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Kimmswick, Revisited
Founded in 1859 by German Theodore Kimm, we thought that Kimmswick was worth a second look recently since we were in the area after having looked at it back in August of 2020. I had forgotten how many...
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Byrne’s Mill, Jefferson County
Well, we discovered there’s not much left of Byrne’s Mill (not to be confused with Byrnesville, which wan named after a totally unrelated man) except a stone pier, but there is a nice write up at the...
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Old Walker Burying Ground
Heading west in St. Charles County, we arrive in Wentzville, where a small but critically important cemetery lies surrounded by the current campus of Holt High School. As can be read here, it holds...
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Sage Chapel Cemetery
Thanks to a tip from Found St. Louis, we learned about the historic Sage Chapel Cemetery, a historic African American burial ground located in O’Fallon in St. Charles County. Read about the history of...
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American Car and Foundry Company, Today
After reading in the news media that several buildings in the old American Car and Foundry Company were threatened with demolition, I traveled out to St. Charles to take a look. One building the...
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Yahn Dam, Weldon Spring
That strange concrete structure we saw two days ago is the spillway that Theodore Yahn built for what was going to be an earthen dam, which would have filled in a valley. It was never completed, so...
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Heck-Roth Cemetery, Weldon Spring
The Heck-Roth Cemetery was located just off the road we looked at yesterday. Like many of the old cemeteries we’ve looked at in the Weldon Spring area, it was for family, and relatively small, though...
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Roth Cemetery, Weldon Spring
At the end of a cul-de-sac on Perceval Drive in the Camelot subdivision in Weldon Spring, the small Roth Cemetery is a unique burial ground in that it was incorporated into a roundabout. There are...
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Othaniel Castlio Cemetery, Busch Wildlife Conservation Area
Deep inside the August A. Busch Conservation Area, walking across the earthen dam that created Lake 37, we were on the hunt for a family cemetery that was left behind when the land was confiscated for...
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St. John’s United Church of Christ Cemetery, Cottleville
Where Route N, the old Boone’s Lick Road make a right turn, going from west to north, is St. John’s United Church of Christ Cemetery in Cottleville. The church was founded in 1866, and sat at the...
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St. Andrew’s Cinema, St. Charles
St. Andrew’s or Andrews Cinema opened in 1970 and is one of the last of the movie theaters of its stylistic kind left in the St. Louis region. It passed through a large number of owners over the...
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Jefferson Avenue Around Immanuel Lutheran Church
After finishing up looking at Seventh Street, we returned back to our starting point, which was Immanuel Lutheran Church, which lies on Jefferson Avenue between Sixth and Seventh streets. I actually...
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Seventh Street Between Lewis and Jefferson Streets, St. Charles
Heading back south on Seventh Street in St. Charles, we see a wide variety of housing styles, including what looks to have been a Cape Cod before receiving several additions. While there are Queen...
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Sixth Street Between Jefferson and Decatur Streets, St. Charles
We looked at Fifth Street in the historic core of St. Charles back in May of 2019, and then there’s a quirk in the street naming system of the grid, as before we get to Sixth Street, there is Benton...
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Oak Grove Cemetery, St. Charles
Oak Grove Cemetery in St. Charles, not to be confused with the one in North County, has a history that goes back to at least 1860. Interestingly, for whatever reason, the City of St. Charles took over...
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Friedens United Church of Christ and Cemetery, St. Charles
Tipped off by Found St. Louis, we checked out the Friedens United Church of Christ and its accompanying cemetery. The current sanctuary dates from 1962, I believe, but there was a much older church...
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St. Peter’s, St. John’s and Immanuel Lutheran Cemeteries
It’s a little confusing, but there are three cemeteries contiguous to each other to the west of downtown St. Charles, and each has its own section, but there are no boundaries between them. In the...
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