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St. Joseph’s, Manchester
St. Joseph’s Roman Catholic Church, c. 1940, Courtesy of Archdiocesan Archives of St. Louis. “Kick out the jams!“ Thanks to the eagle eyes of readers, I discovered that St. Joseph’s Roman Catholic...
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Harugari Cemetery, Manchester
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...
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Gumbo Cemetery, Chesterfield
Largely ignored by commuters and shoppers heading to the “lifestyle center” along Chesterfield Airport Road, Gumbo Cemetery has roots going back to the purchase of the land by German American...
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Gumbo
Detail of Northwest Publishing Company, Plat Book of St. Louis County, Missouri [Page 20] [Malcolm Terrace, on Section II-45-5; Gumbo, in Surveys 1010 & 126. 1909, Missouri History Museum,...
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Looking Back, Chesterfield Mall
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, August 17, 1975, Page 37 Chesterfield Mall officially closed forever on August 31, and I was told by management that demolition will begin earlier than planned. The mall...
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Lake School, Revisited
Well, this came out of left field. Creve Coeur wants to demolish the historic Lake School, which I looked at back on New Year’s Eve of 2021. I went by a couple of weeks ago to evaluate the condition...
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Chesterfield Mall, Under Demolition
While demolition officially commenced on October 15, exterior signs of the deconstruction of the almost fifty year old Chesterfield Mall have only just begun to show on the exterior. Completion is set...
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Former Deep Springs Farm
An interesting relic of St. Louis County’s attempt to build a poor farm in the southwest corner of St. Louis County lies buried inside the innards of a hotel built in 1980. It is just north of the...
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Chesterfield Mall, Demolition, March 2025
Demolition is proceeding rapidly at Chesterfield Mall, and the target of finishing in May seems like it will be easily met. We last stopped by in December of last year and interior demolition was...
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Theaters Demolished, Chesterfield Mall
The last expansion to Chesterfield Mall, the AMC theater with a food court, Borders and Cheesecake Factory, was demolished in the last couple of weeks.
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