Dear readers, I’m happy to announce that my new book, Adam Lemp and the Western Brewery is now out and available for purchase as a paperback and e-book. You can read about it at this link, and purchase it from my preferred local small business, Leviathan Bookstore. If you live out of town or are…
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Cherokee Cave at the Saint Louis Science Center
If you’re looking to do something fun the day after Christmas with the family, take a trip by the Saint Louis Science Center and check out a cool exhibit from the permanent collections. In addition to some other cool stuff, including pieces from the former Museum of Quackery, there is a whole room dedicated to…
Lemp Brewery from the Air, 1930s
I really love this amazing aerial photograph of the Lemp Brewery, a decade after International Shoe had taken over. You can see how the shoe company had already added several floors onto a couple of buildings and altered the smokestack of the third boiler house or power plant to say ISCO. The railyard is still…
Stabilization Continuing, Malt Kilns, Lemp Brewery
We last looked at the controlled demolition of the unstable malt kilns at the Lemp Brewery back in December of 2023. As I’ve been arguing for a while now, the owner’s decision to stabilize the building in this way is the best course of action, and I fully support it. Remember, this was originally a…
Lemp Avenue Across from the Lemp Brewery
Heading north from South Broadway is an interesting row of buildings, starting first with this building that now houses the music venue Off Broadway. There is an anachronistic Lemp Beer sign on the south side of the building. I actually looked at the house below before in April of 2022. Next is a large black…
Lemp Malt Kiln Update
Update: Deconstruction continued in May of 2024. There was a partial collapse of the upper floors of the Lemp Brewery malt kiln recently, which as I wrote at St. Louis Magazine, was constructed in the 1880s. I believe it further proves the point of the owner, Shashi Palamand, and myself that the right course of…
Halloween at the Lemp Brewery
I went to the Lemp Brewery haunted house in mid October, which gave me the chance to take some bad photos of the place at night. It’s pretty fun to walk around the place at night, with lights giving a nice perspective on the architecture. You enter the cellars under the brew house, and then…
Malt Kiln Demolition Work, Lemp Brewery
Sadly, due to the original design of the Lemp Brewery’s malt kiln, which was built in two building campaigns, one in the 1870s, and the other in the 1880s, which I wrote about in St. Louis Magazine, there will have to be necessary demolition of a third of the 1880s expansion. Essentially, William J. Lemp…
Malt Kilns, Lemp Brewery
Update: Unfortunately, the decision was finally made to deconstruct the eastern upper three stories for safety and structural reasons in 2023. The historic malt kilns at the Lemp Brewery have been stabilized after the unfortunate collapse of the western third (spare me your armchair engineering expertise–unless you have an actual B.S. or advanced degree in…
New Stock House, Lemp Brewery
I wrote about the New Stock House at the Lemp Brewery at St. Louis Magazine a few years ago, but I realized I had never really taken any pictures of it in the morning light, which I did recently. It was one of the last and most modern buildings built at the brewery, and was…