St. Louis Patina

They don’t make power plants like this anymore. I wrote an extensive article about the Lemp Brewery’s power plant several years ago, so you can learn about it here. This is another work by Guy Tyler Norton, with extensive collaboration… Continue Reading →

I love this building. The Second Bottling Plant at the Lemp Brewery has many interesting facets to it, starting first with its architects. This is the only building on the property that I’ve definitively shown to be designed by the… Continue Reading →

This next stretch of Meramec is interesting; all of the houses are of uniform age, without a single outlier. I suspect they were developed in one single tract. Consulting Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps, the answer becomes obvious; there was a… Continue Reading →