I went down to the South Riverfront bright and early on Saturday and cut through the flood wall. The sun was shining across the Mississippi River. The water level is still low, but I think it has been rising a… Continue Reading
The old Fermenting or Lagering House is probably my favorite building at the Lemp Brewery, with its three original floors above ground, and the same depth below ground as it is tall. There are two ugly additional floors added by… Continue Reading
While these twin buildings are prominent along South Broadway, their role in generating ice for the boxcars that took Lemp Beer around the world is less well known. I wrote about them at the end of this article back in… Continue Reading
They don’t make power plants like this anymore. I wrote an extensive article about the Lemp Brewery’s power plant several years ago, so you can learn about it here. This is another work by Guy Tyler Norton, with extensive collaboration… Continue Reading
I love this building. The Second Bottling Plant at the Lemp Brewery has many interesting facets to it, starting first with its architects. This is the only building on the property that I’ve definitively shown to be designed by the… Continue Reading
This next stretch of Meramec is interesting; all of the houses are of uniform age, without a single outlier. I suspect they were developed in one single tract. Consulting Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps, the answer becomes obvious; there was a… Continue Reading
Facing the old Maryville College, which was demolished and replaced with apartments when it moved out to West County are two landmark houses in between Minnesota and Pennsylvania avenues. This house had long been the Schumacher Funeral Home, but it… Continue Reading
Next up is a row of houses, primarily in the Second Empire style but with a couple of houses that are from later in the early Twentieth Century. Unlike most of Meramec Street in this area, much of this block… Continue Reading
We left off on our Beauty of Dutchtown series back in September of 2020, so I thought we would look at Meramec Street across from the major and former institutions on the north side of that thoroughfare. Facing the august… Continue Reading
Things are changing on DeMenil Place! One of the medical marijuana cultivation licenses was awarded to a company that is renovating the old Cherokee Candy Company building, which sits on hallowed ground for me: the southeast quadrant of Block 52,… Continue Reading