Update: See the parish of Sacred Heart here, also in Florissant.
In the future, I’ll write more about the Shrine of St. Ferdinand, which possesses some of the oldest buildings in the metro area. For the time being, here are some photographs of the historic complex.
I’m really surprised you don’t have more content on Florissant. There are so many historic buildings but I suppose they are relatively modest architecturally. Unfortunately, the shrine was severely damaged in the flooding of summer ’22 and the Reeb House recently suffered catastrophic fire damage. The Reeb house was particularly architecturally significant too. I recently read that BJ’s Bar, though architecturally bland, was built for the 1904 World’s Fair and deconstructed and transported via the Narrow Gauge railroad to Florissant afterwards.
It’s a little bit of a drive for me. I will get up there eventually!