I stumbled upon this great street of modernist houses in the Meramec Highlands area of Kirkwood, a stone’s throw away from I-270. They are all unique, but I captured two of the more interesting ones. I love the use of stone in this house to give the impression of a mesa or rocky outcropping on…
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Meramec Highlands Quarry
I set out to find the quarry that provided some of the stone for Union Station, as well as many of the stone for houses–perhaps the Lemp Mansion, Cragwold–in the Meramec Highlands resort area of southwest St. Louis County. I found the edge of the quarry, but my traveling companions wanted to get going, so…
Cragwold, Revisited
One of my most popular posts concerned Cragwold, the estate of Edwin Lemp on the bluffs above the Meramec River. I went back and got a couple of new pictures this last weekend.
Driving Manchester Road
I originally had the idea of driving the whole length of Chouteau Ave/Manchester Ave/Manchester Road all the way out to Gray’s Summit, but I got so annoyed at the traffic and absolute monotony of the drive, that I bailed at Geyer Road and drove by the old church Eli Lovejoy preached at. Below is my…
Cragwold
In Search of Cragwold continues to be my most popular post on Saint Louis Patina, judging by number of comments. Just this week, I received another informative comment that sheds more light on the story of this fascinating house. Just goes to show the Lemp family is alive and well both biologically and in the…
In Search of Cragwold
Update: See additional photographs from later visits. It came to my attention recently that the Lemp family had a western outpost in St. Louis County named Cragwold, now in Kirkwood. You can read about the Lemps here in my archive of St. Louis Magazine articles; Edwin Lemp, the last son, built the Cragwold Estate. The…