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…
Tag: Lemp Mansions
Announcing Tour of South St. Louis Breweries
Among my many projects, I am going to be giving a walking tour of four current and former historic breweries, along with several of their beer barons’ houses in the Benton Park vicinity on May 11 at 2:00 PM, beginning at the Anheuser-Busch Brewery. The link to the tour information page is here; please join…
Historic Photos of Alswel
Back before sprawl came to southwestern St. Louis County, a great-aunt of a reader of this site snapped these photos of Alswel, one of several Lemp mansions, in what was probably the 1960’s. Photographs taken by Cora Steyermark, courtesy of Lura Holt.
Alswel, Revisted Again
Update: See historic photos here. A reader was kind enough to submit a higher resolution image of Alswel from the Meramec floodplain. I can’t get enough of this house, and its unique legacy and appearance. Photos courtesy of Wes Bradley
Alswel, Revisited
Update: See more photos here and historic photos here. A reader snapped an up close picture of Alswel recently while visiting a friend in the neighborhood. It’s looking good after all of these years. Photo by Joanne Owens
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.
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…
Request for More Information
A reader of St. Louis Patina is looking for someone who posted on the Lemp Mansion a while back, and if that reader is still enjoying my blog, if he could contact me, that would be cool. The original message that elicited interest: “I had a Great Uncle, George Coombes, who had a thriving camp…
Lemp Mansion, Sunset
Update: Oops! I posted the same photo a week before.
Lemp Mansion, Sunset
Update: Oops! I posted the same photo a week later.