Off of Old Meramec Station Road is the Harugari Cemetery on land donated by the Seibel Family in 1877 in Manchester, many of whom are buried here. The Harugari Society dates to 1848, probably coming out of the revolution in Germany in that year, and aided immigrants in America. A couple chapters still exist. Harugari…
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St. Joseph’s, Manchester
“Kick out the jams!“ Thanks to the eagle eyes of readers, I discovered that St. Joseph’s Roman Catholic Church once had an earlier location in Manchester. With the help of the Archdiocese, I was able to obtain photographs of that church, which was up Creve Coeur Avenue, which surprisingly a very historic street dating back…
Manchester United Methodist Church
Just up from Manchester Road from the Lyceum on Woods Mill Road is Manchester Methodist, which has a history dating back to 1826, when the founder of Ballwin, John Ball, donated the land for the first wood frame church, which would be built in 1837. This Neoclassical church would be built in 1856. Before the…
From the Vault: Manchester
Manchester is one of the oldest settlements in the St. Louis region, with its roots going back to the early Nineteenth Century. Manchester Road has long been a major artery not just through St. Louis County but the City as well, and was even known as Market Street Road for a portion of its history….
John F. Kennedy High School, Interior and Today
Update: The development was largely complete by mid-2023. I dug up some old photos of John F. Kennedy High School from when it had just opened back in 1971. As I covered back in March of this year, it has been completely demolished for new houses named Celtic Meadows. As can be seen below, there…
Former John F. Kennedy Catholic High School, Under Demolition
Update: Completely demolished by March of 2022. See historic photos and the state of construction in August of 2022. The development was largely complete by mid-2023. My prediction that the old John F. Kennedy Catholic High School in Manchester would be sold to a developer for houses has come to pass. McBride Berra is demolishing it…
John F. Kennedy Catholic High School
Updated: Demolished in 2022 for a housing development. See historic photos and the state of construction in August of 2022. The development was largely complete by mid-2023. The former John F. Kennedy Catholic High School, after a short ownership by Fontbonne University, is back up for sale out in Manchester, just to the east of Highway…
St. John United Church of Christ
We realized we had never looked at St. John United Church of Christ up close, despite long admiring its unrivaled location sitting high upon a hill overlooking the intersection of Manchester and Sulphur Spring roads in Manchester. Of course, the United Church of Christ dates to 1957, when several Northern European Protestant denominations joined together….