Looking for something to do this afternoon? I?m offering the tour my walking tour of South Side breweries and owners’ homes October 19, 2013 at 2:00 PM. As before we will start at the entrance to the parking lot of the Anheuser-Busch Brewery. Sites on the walking tour include the Busch Brewery, the Lemp Mansion…
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Historic Southside Breweries Walking Tour, October 19, 2:00 PM
Due to popular demand, I’m offering the tour my walking tour of South Side breweries and owners’ homes October 19, 2013 at 2:00 PM. As before we will start at the entrance to the parking lot of the Anheuser-Busch Brewery. Sites on the walking tour include the Busch Brewery, the Lemp Mansion and Brewery, the…
Gravois at Morganford, Bevo
Update: See the interior of Bevo Mill in July of 2022. I went back and photographed the Stork Inn in 2014. You can see the Feasting Fox, originally known as the Gretchen Inn, in this post here, also from 2014. See Delor Street west of this intersection from March of 2023. See Morgan Ford north…
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.
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 11 at 2:00 PM, beginning at the Anheuser-Busch Brewery. The link to the tour information page is here; please join…
Anheuser-Busch Brewery, Beginnings
Photo from “This is Our St. Louis” by Harry M. Hagen.
Council Plaza and Grand Center Part 7: The Anheuser Busch Sign
Update: The sign has been completely renovated. Everyone is familiar with the Budweiser Eagle sign that sits in sight of the westbound lanes of Highway 40 in Grand Center. But have you ever taken a look at the building it sits on? Apparently it was one of the few buildings not torn down in the…
Interior, Brew House, Anheuser Busch Brewery
After posting yesterday’s pictures of the A-B Brewery, I started thinking about the other brewery buildings still standing throughout the city. While I consider all of the breweries in St. Louis to be beautiful, they all are largely functional in style, and lack an abundance of ornamentation. The Anheuser Busch Brewery is totally different; it…
Brew House, Anheuser Busch Brewery
They sure don’t build industrial buildings like this anymore. Even though it doesn’t need to be ornamented to brew beer, the brew house makes a statement about the solid basis on which this company was founded. Harkening back to the Old Country, the Romanesque Revival architecture reminds customers of the brewery’s German roots. I like…
Bottling Plant, Anheuser Busch Brewery
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map, Plate 60Update: I went back in the early fall of 2021 to take more photos of the plant. According to Sanborn maps, the Anheuser-Busch Brewery originally had several bottling plants before the construction of the iconic bottling plant built in the early Twentieth Century along Broadway. By the time of construction,…