Home Brewery was just one of numerous breweries that were demolished in the mid Twentieth Century. It had a series of lagering cellars or caves, and interestingly, none of the breweries’ Sanborn Maps every…
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Historic Lagering Cellar
The owner of one of the last accessible lagering cellars from St. Louis brewing history was gracious enough to allow me to explore and photograph the subterranean space under his property this last week. Before…
Nighttime View, Compton Hill Tower
I took a series of photos out the observation deck, just as I had years ago. Above is looking to the northeast towards downtown. Above, looking south down Grand Boulevard. Below, two of the surviving…
Compton Hill Tower
I took the opportunity to go up the Compton Water Tower last full moon, and it was well worth the climb. It had been years since the last time, and I wanted to see it…
Reminder: Walking Tour of South St. Louis Breweries Today at 2:00 PM
The tour will pass by the four major historic breweries in the Benton Park and Soulard neighborhoods. Meet at the entrance to the Anheuser-Busch Brewery parking lot.
Two Stately Houses, Benton Park West
These two houses, one in buff brick, the other in red, jumped out at me recently in the northern portion of Benton Park West. They look identical, but the developer changed the front facade and…
Fox Park and Industry
It can be a little jarring, driving through much of the South Side, which was originally built as residential streetcar suburbs, and then all of the sudden you hit block after block of factories and…
Fox Park
Fox Park, the eastern neighbor of Tower Grove East, really just blends into the latter’s edge in the rhombus of land between I-44, Grand, Jefferson and Gravois. Named after the lumber company that once partially…
McKinley Heights, Revisited
I’ve always been intrigued by McKinley Heights; sandwiched in between Lafayette Square, Soulard and Benton Park, it gets forgotten by many people. But obviously, due to its close proximity to those other famous neighborhoods, McKinley…
Announcing Tour of South St. Louis Breweries
Among my many projects, I am going to be giving a walking tour of four current and former historic breweries, along with several of their beer barons’ houses in the Benton Park vicinity on May…
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