We visited Innsbrook last weekend and saw some of the lakes. It has become an incredibly expensive place to buy a house! But originally it was relatively inexpensive it you got in back in the 1970s. Located out in Warren County, just to the south of what was then the relatively new I-70, Innsbrook, anglicized…
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Emmaus Homes, Fall 2022
Update: Hoffman put the property up for sale in October of 2023. We swung by Emmaus Homes, which is now Chateau Hoffman, to see what was going on. It looks like there is a pause in renovation after the clearance of trees we saw back in February of this year. The first floor windows of…
Emmaus Homes, New Lease on Life
Update: We went back in the fall of 2022 to see if there had been more construction. The site had been mothballed. Hoffman put the property up for sale in October of 2023. Bonjour mesdames et messieurs! Bienvenue au Château Hoffman! OK, jokes aside, anyone in the preservation community–or anyone in the wider community in…
Former Marthasville Seminary and Emmaus Homes, Spring 2021
Update: The property had been purchased with the intention of being renovated into a hotel by the winter of 2022. But then Hoffman put the property up for sale in October of 2023. Fast forward to the spring of 2021, and the Emmaus Homes are vacant, and due to a recent auction of the property…
Former Marthasville Seminary and Emmaus Homes, Winter 2016
Update: The Emmaus Homes moved out shortly after these photos were taken, but the property has been purchased and is being renovated into a hotel. See it the spring of 2021. As of the winter of 2022, it had been intended to be renovated into a hotel and winery. But then Hoffman put the property…
Dickhaus-Stemme House, Daniel Boone Grave
The Dickhaus-Stemme House sits within a short walk of Daniel Boone’s Missouri grave. It’s a great example of Greek Revival architecture in a rural setting. The friendly owners have begun to assemble a group of buildings around the house. Their Facebook page tells about their projects. And here is Boone’s grave; controversy still surrounds where…
The Case of the Mysteriously Vanishing Rock Piles
Update: The stones were moved to the winery, and a small memorial was built with stones from the church on the former site in Rock Hill. I covered the shameful desecration of Rock Hill Presbyterian last year, and a friend and I drove out to see how progress on the reconstruction was going. It turns…
Rock Hill Presbyterian, Slightly Disassembled
Update: The rock piles have vanished, and no sign of a church being rebuilt at the winery. A small memorial made of stone from the church were built on its former site in Rock Hill several years later. Alerted by a reader of this site, my father and I ventured out to rural Warren County…