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Tag: Busch
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.
Barley Cleaning House, North Side of Anheuser-Busch Brewery
I was intrigued by the Barley Cleaning House; why the strange proportions? Is it still in use, or does it stay because it’s historic? I love how it looks like a castle tower. But what are these mysterious stone foundations? Oh, the good old Sanborn maps! They reveal that the old rugged stone foundation…
Lyon School
Update: See the Fremont School from the same era in October of 2019. After the recent demolition of the Hodgen School on Lafayette, the old Lyon School in the Anheuser-Busch campus provides one of the few reminders of our education system before the rise of the great Ittner/Milligan team in the early Twentieth Century.
Farmhouse, Sunset Country Club
The VonEime Farm became the Sunset Country Club when Eberhard Anheuser and Adolphus Busch bought the property around 1910. The farmhouse, from the 1850s, was stuccoed and became a dormitory for female country club workers. Sitting on Hadley Hill Road, there appears to have been some other structure near the farmhouse. The club house is…
Reminder, South Side Brewery Tour Today!
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…
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…
Bellefontaine Cemetery in the Snow
I went with some friends to Bellefontaine Cemetery, where I’ve been many times before, but cloaked in a shroud of snow, it took on a new level of beauty.