The Anheuser-Busch Brewery never ceases to be interesting to me, and on an early Saturday morning, I captured the Bevo Bottling Plant with the sun shining on it. The old shipping office can be seen off to the right, which I’ve also photographed before. I looked at the bottling plant way back in February of…
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The Beauty of Dutchtown, Part 44: Virginia Avenue Between Taft and Osceola
This section of Virginia Avenue is one of the first I looked at, way back in February of 2011, when I was seeking out the Stork Inn, which I revisited again in May of 2014. I was saddened to see the two story house on the left on Idaho Avenue, which comes in at sharp…
The South Side, Quincy, Illinois
For the next several weeks, I’m going to be looking at the towns upriver from St. Louis on the Mississippi River, starting with Quincy, Illinois. It’s an interesting city, and in many ways, it is a small version of St. Louis. On the South side of the city, there is a German neighborhood, much like…
Busch Mausoleum, Autumn 2018
I experimented around with different vantage points of the Busch Mausoleum, which was looking resplendent in the autumn light at Bellefontaine Cemetery.
Old Shipping Office, Anheuser-Busch
As I’m sure some people might know, Broadway passes over a viaduct on the east side of the Anheuser-Busch Brewery, as there are loading docks and tracks going into the massive Bevo Bottling Plant. To learn more about these subterranean places, read my article at St. Louis Magazine. But the ornamentation, on even a simple…
Anheuser-Busch Brew House, Revisited
Anheuser-Busch wasn’t the only brewery in St. Louis to have a multi-floored, skylight lit brew house (my research has shown that the Columbia Brewery did as well), but it is the only one left in operation. It’s almost like the company cared about their workers having a good day at work, as light shone down…
Anheuser Busch Power Plant
I know little about the operation of power plants, other than you burn something in them that produces heat that then turns water into steam, which turns a generator that produces electricity, but I do know that historic power plants around St. Louis are wonderful reminders of the city’s burgeoning industrial might back in the…
Rediscovering the Beauty of the Heart of the Anheuser-Busch Brewery
Why can’t corporations build beautiful buildings anymore? Why is it such an affront to the bottom line? I can guarantee one of the main reasons Anheuser-Busch is still such an iconic name in St. Louis is the beauty of its brewery. They just don’t build it like this anymore, which is a shame.
Adolphus Busch Statue
They don’t make marble statues of company founders anymore.
Finishing, Anheuser-Busch Brewery
I finally asked a tour guide what this massive building is on the Anheuser-Busch campus. She told me it was finishing and filtering, where the beer is completed before being sent to the Bevo bottling plant. It is a strangely sublime building, towering over everything around it with simple ornament.