Faust County Park is one of St. Louis County's most unique parks. Features include the Sophia M. Sachs Butterfly, a historical village, hte St. Louis Carousel, and Thornhill, the restored the estate of Frederick Bates, Missouri's second governor.
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Forest Park is one of St. Louis' most treasured resources and one of the largest urban parks in the United States. It is the home to the region’s major cultural institutions—the Saint Louis Zoo, Saint Louis Art Museum, History Museum, Saint Louis Science Center and the Muny Opera. It also serves as a sports center for golf, tennis, baseball, bicycling, boating, fishing, handball, and ice-skating.
Read moreThornhill
Thornhill was the home of Frederick Bates, Missouri’s second governor. The 1820s federal-style home is the oldest standing governor’s residence in Missouri. The home has been restored so visitors can see how a typical farm family lived during the early 1800s. Thornhill is in Faust County Park which also is home to the Butterfly House, the Saint Louis Carousel, and Faust Historical Village.
Read moreThe Old Courthouse
The Old Courthouse is best for the Dred Scott slavery trials and where Virginia Minor's case for a woman's right to vote came to trial in the 1870s. Today the Old Courthouse is a museum documenting the history of Saint Louis and the judiciary system of the 19th century. Recently the Old Courthouse was added to the National Park Service's National Underground Railroad Network To Freedom.
Read moreMudd's Grove
Mudd's Grove is an antebellum, brick Greek revival house built in 1859 and named for Henry T. Mudd who bought the house and 100 adjoining acres in 1866. Through the years, Mudd's Grove was home to many local families before it was bought by the Kirkwood Historical Society in 1992 and opened for public tours.
Read moreMissouri History Museum
The Missouri History Museum is dedicated to documenting and interpreting the history of the Saint Louis area. The museum is housed in a building formerly called the Jefferson Memorial in honor of President Thomas Jefferson. In 2000 the addition of the Emerson Electric Center to the building gave the Missouri History Museum more exhibit space and additional facilities.
Read moreMissouri Civil War Museum
The Missouri Civil War Museum is located in the Jefferson Barracks Historic Site in just south of Saint Louis. The facility is the largest educational complex dedicated exclusively to Missouri’s role in the Civil War. Visitors will Civil War and other area memorabilia and contains a movie room and several other multimedia presentations.
Read moreScott Joplin House
Of all the houses and clubs in which ragtime composer Scott Joplin lived and worked in Saint Louis, only the second floor flat, which he and his wife Belle Hayden Joplin moved in 1900, survives. The apartment has been restored and furnished with period pieces and the building also has museum exhibits interpreting Joplin's life and work, and Saint Louis during the ragtime era.
Read moreJefferson Barracks Telephone Museum
Housed in a beautifully restored 1896 building, the museum features an extensive collection of telephones, telephone-related equipment and memorabilia. It is located in the Jefferson Barracks Historic Park, just south of downtown Saint Louis. This self-guided, accessible museum has many hands-on, how-things-work displays.
Read moreJefferson Barracks National Cemetery
Jefferson Barracks, one of the National Cemetery Administrations oldest interment sites, has served as a burial place soldiers from all wars. The old cemetery contains approximately 20,000 gravesites including more than 11,000 from the Civil War. As space became limited, the cemetery was expanded to more than double its size in the 1890s.
Read moreJefferson Barracks County Park
Jefferson Barracks was established in 1826 as the country’s first “Infantry School of Practice,” and served as a major military installation until 1946. Jefferson Barracks is now a county park perched on a scenic bluff overlooking the Mississippi River. Historic features on the property include the Laborer’s House, the Stable, Powder Magazine Museum, and the Old Ordnance Room.
Read moreHawken House
The historic 1857 Christopher Hawken House is the oldest house in suburban Webster Groves. Christopher Hawken was the son of Jacob Hawken who, with his brother Samuel, manufactured the Hawken Rifle. The Hawken House is an excellent example of a Federal/Greek Revival home. It is decorated with furnishings of the era and is home to the Webster Groves Historical Society.
Read moreGriot Museum of Black History and Culture
The Griot Museum of Black History and Culture tells the stories of famous and not-so-famous African-American Missourians including George Washington Carver, Dred and Harriett Scott, and others. Visitors can experience the 'Middle Passage' on a slave ship made to scale or tour an authentic slave cabin. Artifacts, historical documents and the works of local and national artists are also on display.
Read moreUlysses S. Grant National Historic Site
White Haven was the childhood home of Julia Dent Grant, wife of Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th president of the United States. The National Park Service has preserved the site and has restored the main house and other structures to their 1875 appearance. The horse stable contains a museum about the lives and legacy of Ulysses and Julia.
Read moreGateway Arch National Park
Located on the banks of the Mississippi River in downtown Saint Louis, the Gateway Arch National Park was established in 1935 to commemorate the westward growth of the United States between 1803 and 1890. The park complex consists of the Gateway Arch, the Museum of Westward Expansion, and Saint Louis' Old Courthouse.
Read moreFort Belle Fontaine Park
Fort Belle Fontaine was established in 1805 on the south bank of the Missouri River near its confluence with the Mississippi River. The Fort was the first U.S. military outpost west of the Mississippi River. The park offers sweeping views of the Missouri River and overlooks the location of sites where Lewis and Clark camped in 1804.
Read moreField House Museum
The Field House Museum is the boyhood home of Eugene Field, the "Children's Poet." The home contains many furnishings that belonged to the Field family. Several rooms are used to display toy collections and traveling exhibits. In 2016 the Field House Museum opened a 4,000 sq ft expansion with rotating exhibit spaces and, a library, and a gift shop.
Read moreEads Bridge
The Eads Bridge was designed and built by engineer James B. Eads and opened July 4, 1874 as the world’s largest bridge and the first railroad bridge to cross the Mississippi River. A restoration project was completed in 2003 and the bridge was reopened to automobile traffic. The Eads Bridge also features a bicycle and pedestrian lane.
Read moreWilliam Clark's Grave
William Clark - co-commander of the Discovery Expedition and later Brigadier General of Militia and Superintendent of Indian Affairs for the Louisiana Territory was buried on the farm outside Saint Louis in 1828. Today the grave is located within the boundaries of Bellefontaine Cemetery. An elaborate granite obelisk featuring a bust of the explorer and an inscription, marks the site.
Read moreCampbell House Museum
Built in 1851, the first house in the elegant neighborhood Lucas Place, the Campbell House, was the home of renowned fur trader and entrepreneur Robert Campbell and his family from 1854 until 1938. The museum contains hundreds of original Campbell possessions including furniture, paintings, clothing, letters, carriages and a unique set of interior photographs taken in the mid-1880s.
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