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Further Down Market Street, Ste. Genevieve
The Southern Hotel is technically down Third Street, but we’ll continue on our way down Market Street towards the river. Note the cupola on the roof. While the Ste. Genevieve is famous for being a...
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Two Churches, Ste. Genevieve
While Ste. Genevieve is famous for being founded by French Canadian Catholics, there are other churches in town of historic importance, as well. Holy Cross Lutheran Church was founded in 1867, and...
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Colonial and Colonialish Houses, Ste. Genevieve
Moving down to what is now South Main Street, we hit some of the oldest houses in Ste. Genevieve. There is the Bolduc House above. Early colonial houses had broad porches that wrapped around the whole...
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Other Houses Along Main Street, Ste. Genevieve
Readers interested in the Club Imperial, where Tina Turner performed early in her career, can see two posts I did on the famed venue here and here. I think it’s important to realize that while yes,...
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Commercial Buildings, Main Street, Ste. Genevieve
When I first put these photographs together, I thought this initial building was a storefront, but on closer inspection, despite its façade’s parapet wall, it does in fact appear to be a single family...
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Architectural Variety, Ste. Genevieve
Here’s a scattering of other buildings along Main Street in Ste. Genevieve, showing what a wide variety of architectural styles there are in the town. This first house, now a restaurant looks to have...
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More French American Houses, Ste. Genevieve
Heading up Merchant Street, we first hit the Felix Vallé House, which is state historic site. He lived in one half and operated a store in the other half. Oftentimes referred to the Fedderal Style,...
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Merchant Street, Ste. Genevieve
Let’s finish up our tour of Ste. Genevieve with a final walk up Merchant Street to our starting point of the area around the church. Perhaps what is best illustrated in this row of buildings is that...
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Emmanuel United Church of Christ
The landscape around Emmanuel United Church of Christ has changed dramatically around the church since it was found in 1866 and when the current building was constructed in 1874. Of course this was...
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Abandoned McDonald’s, Weldon Spring
Let me ask you something. When was the last time you saw an abandoned McDonald’s? I learned from an industry insider that McDonald’s corporate policy is to demolish a closed store as soon as possible,...
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Innsbrook
We visited Innsbrook last weekend and saw some of the lakes. It has become an incredibly expensive place to buy a house! But originally it was relatively inexpensive it you got in back in the 1970s....
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Enclaves of St. Louis #4: Weldon Spring Heights
I’ve recently become interested in suburbs of suburbs, which in this case is Weldon Spring Heights, which is a suburb of Weldon Spring. It is also another entry in the Enclaves of St. Louis. And like...
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The Missouri Bluffs
Do you find the natural contours of the earth boring? If so, I have found the perfect subdivision for you! Following the disgraceful sale of forested bluff land along the Missouri River by the...
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Hatcher Cemetery, Lake St. Louis
Thanks to a tip, we explored a cemetery in Lake St. Louis just across the street from the Meadows shopping development in Lake St. Louis. It is hiding plain sight, so to speak. It is extremely old,...
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Cannon Cemetery, Indian Camp Creek Park
Inside Indian Camp Creek Park, part of the St. Charles County parks system, is the Cannon Family Cemetery. Secured from the public now with a tall fence, it has numerous graves of the Cannon family,...
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AMC Theater Closes at Chesterfield Mall
Update: An additional closed theater added in August of 2023. I was surprised to discover that the relatively new AMC theater at Chesterfield Mall had closed back on May 18 of this year. Yes, the mall...
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Hopewell Missionary Baptist Church and Cemetery
We visited the Hopwell Missionary Baptist Church just south of Wentzville in St. Charles County recently, and also looked at the historic cemetery behind the African American congregation’s buildings....
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Francis Howell Cemetery
Tucked away but not hidden in August A. Busch (Sr.) Wildlife Conservation Area is the Francis Howell Cemetery. We’ve looked at the Thomas Howell Cemetery a few years back, and there are even more...
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Another Howell Cemetery, St. Charles County
Besides the Thomas and Francis cemeteries, there is another unmarked Howell burial ground further west on the eponymous road in St. Charles County near Route 94 on the way to Defiance. There are some...
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Washington, At Night
I was giving a lecture out in Washington, Missouri, and I had some time to kill so I walked around the downtown, taking some pictures of the historic architecture. Above is St. Peter’s United Church...
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