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Bellefontaine Cemetery. The Wainwright Tomb is on the NRHP. / 38.69737; -90.23363. Bellefontaine Cemetery is a nonprofit, non-denominational cemetery and arboretum in St. Louis, Missouri. Founded in 1849 as a rural cemetery, Bellefontaine has several architecturally significant monuments and mausoleums such as the Louis Sullivan -designed ...
June 15, 1970. The Wainwright Tomb is a mausoleum located in Bellefontaine Cemetery in St. Louis, Missouri. Originally constructed for Charlotte Dickson Wainwright in 1892, the tomb also contains the remains of her husband, Ellis Wainwright. The mausoleum was designed by noted Chicago school architect Louis Sullivan, who also designed the ...
Fort Belle Fontaine (formerly known as Cantonment Belle Fontaine) is a former U.S. military base located in St. Louis County, Missouri, across the Mississippi and Missouri rivers from Alton, Illinois. The fort was the first U.S. military installation west of the Mississippi, in the newly acquired Louisiana Territory, and served as a starting ...
Price's funeral was held on October 3, 1867, in St. Louis, at the First Methodist Episcopal Church (on the corner of Eighth and Washington). His body was carried by a black hearse drawn by six matching black horses, and his funeral procession was the largest to take place in St. Louis up to that point. He was buried in Bellefontaine Cemetery. [66]
Calvary Cemetery (St. Louis) / 38.69502; -90.238244. Calvary Cemetery is a Roman Catholic cemetery located in St. Louis, Missouri and operated by the Archdiocese of St. Louis. Founded in 1854, it is the second oldest cemetery in the Archdiocese. Calvary Cemetery contains 470 acres (1.9 km 2) of land and more than 300,000 graves, including those ...
The tomb was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970, and was designated a St. Louis Landmark in 1971. Today, the tomb is widely regarded as the best mausoleum designed by Sullivan, and is the most architecturally significant structure in historic Bellefontaine Cemetery on the north side of St. Louis.
Bellefontaine Neighbors, Missouri. / 38.75278°N 90.22806°W / 38.75278; -90.22806. Bellefontaine Neighbors ( / bɛlˈfaʊntən / bel-FOWN-tən) is an inner-ring suburban city in St. Louis County, Missouri, United States. The population was 10,740 at the 2020 census. [ 5]
William D. Becker. Thomas Hart Benton (politician) Thekla M. Bernays. Daniel Bissell (general) Francis Preston Blair Jr. Henry Taylor Blow. Susan Blow. Benjamin Bonneville. Henry Clay Brockmeyer.