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Lemp Brewery

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We Interrupt Our Regularly Scheduled Program

Posted on August 24, 2020 by Chris Naffziger

Update: I appeared on “St. Louis on the Air” on August 26th to discuss the Lemp Brewery and the Malt Kiln’s collapse. Listen to the broadcast here. For the first time in a decade, I’m posting an entry outside of… Continue Reading →

South Breweries, Lemp, Lemp Brewery, Renaissance Revival, Romanesque Revival
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Lemp Brewery, Early Summer 2020

Posted on July 22, 2020 by Chris Naffziger

Some of my favorite buildings at the Lemp Brewery, built over a time period of the 1870s through the 1910s, are from left to right above: the malt kiln and house, and the fermenting department. Above and below, the malt… Continue Reading →

South Benton Park, Breweries, Lemp, Lemp Brewery, Renaissance Revival, Romanesque Revival, Warehouses
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Lemp Brewery, Early May, 2020

Posted on May 25, 2020 by Chris Naffziger

Jason Gray’s photographs that he took for my series of articles about the Lemp Brewery for St. Louis Magazine are of such higher quality than mine that it almost seems pointless for me to take any more pictures of the… Continue Reading →

South Benton Park, Breweries, Lemp, Lemp Brewery, Power Plants, Renaissance Revival, Warehouses
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Beverley Allen Grave

Posted on April 10, 2020 by Chris Naffziger

For all my readers who are fans of Lemp history, I made an interesting discovery in my research of the founder of the dynasty, Adam Lemp. When he purchased the property for the brewery on the Levee in 1844, the… Continue Reading →

North Bellefontaine Cemetery, Cemeteries, Lemp, Lemp Brewery
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Louis Bach Grave, Bellefontaine Cemetery

Posted on September 17, 2019 by Chris Naffziger

North of his old friend and business partner, Adam Lemp’s grave, there is the family plot of Louis Bach, who also was active in politics and city government in pre-Civil War St. Louis. As my new research will show next… Continue Reading →

North Bellefontaine Cemetery, Cemeteries, Lemp, Lemp Brewery
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Western Cable Railroad Right-of-Way

Posted on April 18, 2017 by Chris Naffziger

Coming through the ice house on the Lemp Brewery’s property, a rail line came down Potomac, and curved northward to hook up to the Iron Mountain Railroad. While the middle of the curving path is now gone due to the… Continue Reading →

South Breweries, Lemp, Lemp Brewery, Romanesque Revival, South Riverfront
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Lemp Brewery, Early April 2017

Posted on April 17, 2017 by Chris Naffziger

Portions of the Lemp Brewery date back to the Civil War, when William J. Lemp Sr. began to build his new brewery right in the shadow of a fort that guarded the city, just to the west. The malt kiln’s… Continue Reading →

South Benton Park, Breweries, Lemp, Lemp Brewery, Renaissance Revival
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Lemp Lagering Cellar and Lines

Posted on August 8, 2015 by Chris Naffziger

This postcard must date from the early Twentieth Century because of the Art Nouveau borders on the pictures. But they are stunning, showing the tunnels that allowed beer to move between buildings, a later addition to the brewery. Likewise, the… Continue Reading →

South Benton Park, Breweries, Caves, Lemp, Lemp Brewery, Marine Villa
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Lemp History

Posted on July 29, 2015 by Chris Naffziger

Update: The link is now broken. Listen to the podcast where Martin Casas, director of the Saint Louis Swap Meet, interviews me about the history of the Lemp Brewery.

South Benton Park, Breweries, Historic Sites, Lemp, Lemp Brewery, Lemp Mansions, Marine Villa
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Lemp Impostor Exposed

Posted on May 18, 2015 by Chris Naffziger

I wanted to warn my readers that there is a man that had been going around claiming to be a member of the Lemp family, and was even making some modest money off of his reputed identity. Myself and many… Continue Reading →

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