Fountain Park, which has been in the news a bunch already, was crowded with disaster relief efforts so I continued on, not wanting to get in the way. I headed up North Taylor Avenue, taking a quick look at the Lewis Place neighborhood before heading into The Ville. I’ve looked at the building above before,…
Tag: Cemeteries
Gatehouses, Bellefontaine Cemetery, Revisited
I was driving up North Broadway past Bellefontaine Cemetery when I noticed that the gatehouse was undergoing some renovation. With so many absentee landlords and other slumlords letting their properties fall into disrepair, its nice to see the Cemetery taking pride in their buildings. I’ve looked at these gates back in November of 2016. As…
St. Paul, St. Charles County
The small town of St. Paul takes its name from the Catholic church at the crossroads of Hackman and St. Paul roads, just to the west of Route 79, which follows the bluff line up along the Mississippi River in northern St. Charles County. There is no street grid but rather houses and businesses lining…
Daffodils Blooming, Bellefontaine Cemetery
The daffodils were blooming in Bellefontaine Cemetery, and it was beautiful.
Bellefontaine Cemetery in the Snow, January 2025
It’s always fun to go to Bellefontaine Cemetery after it’s snowed and I wasn’t disappointed this time, either. I’ve visited in the snow in January of 2013, in February of 2015, in March of 2021 and in February of 2022.
St. Paul’s Church and Cemetery, Oakville, and Environs
Let’s head south, deep into South St. Louis County and check out some very old historic sites. Our first stop is St. Paul’s United Church of Christ, Oakville, which was probably originally a German Evangelisch church. There are multiple expansions here, including a Modernist sanctuary as well as an English Gothic Revival church building facing…
Bethany Cemetery, St. Charles Rock Road
We looked at the now fire-gutted former sanctuary of Bethany Evangelisch Church last week, so I thought I would check out the accompanying cemetery out St. Charles Rock Road. Like just about all German Protestant churches, the cemeteries were owned and operated independently by individual congregations, for better or for worse, sometimes for the extremely…
Missouri Crematory
The Missouri Crematory was completed in 1888 according to designs by Otto Wilhelmi, and supposedly is the first one west of the Mississippi River, but I could not verify that. To be honest, much of the information out there on the crematory is not great, contradicts itself, and is also demonstrably wrong. I was able…
Friedens Cemetery, September 2024
I’d been concerned in previous years about the upkeep of the Friedens Cemetery, just across the boundary of the City on Bellefontaine Road. It was once the cemetery of Friedens Evangelisch Church in Hyde Park, but as is so common, when that congregation closed, the burial grounds’ fortunes went in a different direction. However, on…
Western Lutheran Cemetery Desecration
There’s been a terrible new development at the Western Lutheran Cemetery in The Greater Ville. Sometime in the last year or so, the neighbors of the cemetery have turned the eastern portion into a junkyard, full of abandoned, broken down vehicles and other rubbish. And yes, I can confirm where the property lines are, and…