St. Joseph’s Hospital has been around since the Nineteenth Century, but what often happens is that the original buildings are torn down and replaced in the mid-Twentieth Century. Such is this case at this hospital, which is an interesting mix of different parts, built over the last couple of decades. A chapel which is behind…
Old Homesteads, Far West St. Louis County
Out west are all sorts of surprises, tucked between the valleys and subdivisions are old log cabins, such as the one off of Valley Road, or the old farmhouse off of Strecker. This old farm house below has sat empty for years now, despite being close to Clarkson Road on Kehrs Mill. The barn still…
Making the World a Better Place?
One of the last pieces of flat land left out in the western edge of St. Louis County, the fields once owned by the small Cahtolic school, Linda Vista, has finally been swallowed by “progress.” The earth has been ripped away, revealing a strange mix of bedrock and soil. Trees hand precariously, and almost certainly…
Forest of Graves, Calvary Cemetery
I was looking out over Calvary Cemetery recently and marveled at how the view in front of me was almost completely blocked by tombstones.
Cheramis, Castlewood
It’s a little blurry, but this photograph provided by Joyce Pharriss of her family’s Cheramis cabin records what many of the now completely lost cabins along the Meramec River would have looked like. It’s an era that is now long gone, but worth remembering.
Bellefontaine Cemetery, Early May 2015
Every time I go out to Bellefontaine Cemetery, I see something new, or see something old in a new light. This tomb has some Greek words on it that I need to further investigate in the future.
More Griesediecks, Calvary Cemetery
Members of the Griesedieck family have told me there are dozens of their relatives alive and well in St. Louis, and I just discovered a whole bunch more of them buried at Calvary. This cluster is across the way from the Alvin Griesedieck group. I don’t recognize any of the names; do you?
Mary B. Abbott Tomb, Calvary Cemetery
Located right behind William T. Sherman’s grave in Calvary is this unique, if proportionally strange tomb. I wonder who she was.
Lemp Mausoleum Details, Revisited
After a gray winter, green returns with its contrasts to the Lemp Mausoleum in Bellefontaine Cemetery.