Here’s the big wind-up to our six episode treatment of the German House/St Louis House. Hold on to your seats – there’s a lot to cover here!
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German House/St Louis House Bowling Through The Years
Categories: Historical Photos, Lafayette Square History
Rolling along with a history of German House/St Louis House. Here, an examination of the rise and fall of bowling in Lafayette Square
1956: German House/St Louis House Hosts The Symphony
Categories: Historical Photos, Lafayette Square History
Part four of our visit to the German House finds the St Louis Symphony hard at work. Shhh… let’s listen in.
1946: German House/St Louis House Welcomes The Teen Thirty Club
Categories: Historical Photos, Lafayette Square History
Say what you will of 2345 Lafayette Avenue – that old building could jump!
German House/ St Louis House: The Spiritualists
Categories: Historical Photos, Lafayette Square History
In this episode we resume piecing together the mystical story of a four story building at 2345 Lafayette Avenue. Here, we take a walk in faith along an assortment of entrepreneurial pathways to Heaven, when the instruments of salvation chose to land at the St Louis House and gathered up wool from the local […]
German House/St Louis House: The Earliest Years 1928-1942
Categories: Historical Photos, Lafayette Square History
2345 Lafayette Avenue is for sale. Our largest, newest and arguably least understood building. Tuck into the first of six essays bringing it back to life.
Coming Sunday – The First In A Six Part Series On The German House/St Louis House
Categories: Historical Streets and Architecture, Lafayette Square History
2345 Lafayette Avenue, at that street’s intersection with Jefferson Avenue, is one of the newest, most heavily documented, yet least understood structures in Lafayette Square. The Lafayette Square Archives has done its research to wind back the clock on Das Deutsche Haus, and serve it up […]
1977: Happy Valentines Day From Lafayette Square
Categories: Historical People of Lafayette Square, Lafayette Square History
A look back at historical parallels between mating rituals in Lafayette Square and Dogpatch USA in 1977.
1874 – A Cattle Call Is Heard From Lafayette Square
Categories: Historical Streets and Architecture, Lafayette Square History
Beef – it’s what’s for dinner…unless you can’t turn the cow into beef. Read on about the complications in the days before factory farming in St Louis.
Ode to Ginkgo, or Eau de Ginkgo – Trees Of Lafayette Square
Categories: Lafayette Park, Lafayette Square History
Soon after a craft beer festival in Lafayette Park, a neighbor whose dog was mixing with mine commented on a strong smell, like that of someone having barfed nearby. That odor actually IS the smell of someone barfing nearby. It’s butyric acid, and it’s formed by the rotting fruit of the female ginkgo tree. I […]