The northern neighbor of the Feickert-Lemp Mansion in the William Weible Addition was also an Italianate style house, with a similar appearance to it as well as the Hoppe Mansion on the west side of the street. While property records in the Assessor’s office shows the land was independently owned, it’s curious that they are all so similar in design, as if built at the same time by the same builder.
Like all the houses on the street, the Louis Baumann house fell on hard times and operated as a small hospital for a time, before being bought and demolished for the Ozark Expressway, or as we now call it most commonly, Interstate 55. I feel like I met someone, a long time ago, that was born in this hospital. There is very little about the Marian Hospital, as it was known, and it seems to have served low-income residents of the immediate area. The triangular parking lot for the modern Lemp Mansion Restaurant is the remnant of the lots that made up the long lost house.
But at one point it was owned by Gustav Cramer, and it was built in the 1860s like its compatriots after the Union army had moved out of the area’s fortifications with the end of the Civil War. It must have been something to see. Note the original St. Agatha’s in the background, with the typical sanctuary over the classroom design of semi-rural parishes in the St. Louis Archdiocese.
Born & raised in Kirkwood; left St. Louis in 1985. Love this site and check in every so often for several years now.
Not to be That Guy, but you have a photo on the “Former Marian Hospital” page here that apparently tries to date the photo to 1951, but the Chevy in the shot is a classic ’59 “cat’s eyes” Chevy…
No, I love to hear these corrections! I get those dates from the original image holder and I want to know if there are mistakes. I thought that house/hospital would have already been felled by the highway construction in 1959, but a 30 second Google search proves you correct.
I lived in the neighborhood . I sold the old Globe Democrat newspaper in the hospital in the mid 1950’s. Our family doctor, Dr Ellison practiced in the Marian hospital and we all assumed he was the owner. Dr Ellison also delivered myself and two younger brothers in our home between 1944 and 1949.
Hello, I lived down the street on Utah across from St. Agatha Catholic church and remember the hospital very well. I had a couple of small surgeries there. Dr. Ellison delivered me and my sister and my first wife. He had a office on South Broadway. I remember an old gentleman who lived in that hospital and would sit outside on nice days. We were told that the new highway would take our home, however the house at 904 Utah is still there today.
Oh wow, they even performed surgeries in that building? That’s so cool to learn. Thanks for sharing.