I thought I would swing by Bellefontaine Cemetery and check out Dr. Franz Arzt’s grave. Like many famous members of St. Louis society buried there, he purchased a family plot, so many other members of family are buried with him. Of course, his house is being renovated in Soulard, which I’ve written about at St….
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Bellefontaine Cemetery, Late Summer into Fall 2019
I think it’s important to realize that not all mausolea at Bellefontaine Cemetery are Beaux-Arts masterpieces. Some look like they could have come from the hills of Ireland, and landed in the middle of St. Louis. Likewise, not all obelisks are rote copies, as this unique one below illustrates.
Moll Monument, Bellefontaine Cemetery
What I love about Bellefontaine Cemetery is all the serendipitous discoveries I make, such as stumbling upon the Adolf (or Adolph) Moll monument and his large family plot on the northern edge of the cemetery. It turns out he was the scion of a grocery store business, which had one of its last locations at…
Ellie Koehler Lemp Grave, Bellefontaine Cemetery
Caspar Koehler, the father of Ellie, the second wife of William Lemp, Jr., was a brewer, and her first husband, Rudolph Limberg, was the president of the Columbia Brewing Co. Their son, Edward, died in 1939, a year and a half before Ellie. Despite being married to William Jr. when he committed suicide, she is…
Details, Lemp Mausoleum
The Lemp Mausoleum is less than half full, and probably will be forever. See the inside at this earlier post here.
Details, Wainwright Tomb
I’ve been coming by the Wainwright Tomb (designed by Louis Sullivan for the same man as the office building downtown) for over a decade, and it’s interesting to see how it’s changed over the years.
Louis Bach Grave, Bellefontaine Cemetery
North of his old friend and business partner, Adam Lemp’s grave, there is the family plot of Louis Bach, who also was active in politics and city government in pre-Civil War St. Louis. As my new research will show next summer, Louis Bach and John Kaeckell were active partners with Adam Lemp in the famous…
Baumhoff Monument, Bellefontaine Cemetery
George W. Baumhoff was the general manager of the St. Louis Transit Company. According to the Missouri History Museum, he owned an estate of several hundred acres out by Valley Park, called “Treecourt,” which I can verify is sort of a translation of his last name in German. I suspect the modern-day industrial park of…