Early in the New Year, means a trip to the family plot in Bellefontaine Cemetery in the northern section of the City of St. Louis. Founded in 1849 as St. Louis’s first rural cemetery, Bellefontaine Cemetery and Arboretum (the first west of the Mississippi) became a unique garden landscape for prominent figures like William Clark and Adolphus Busch, featuring significant architecture, and remains an active, historically vital resting place and arboretum today, listed on the National Register of Historic Places for its beauty and history.
Shown here is the Wainwright Tomb, located near my family and is one of the many historic structures I like to visitt while there. In 1892, soon after Louis Sullivan completed the Wainwright building in downtown St. Louis, he was commissioned to design a tomb for Charlotte Dickson Wainwright, the wife of Ellis Wainwright. The tomb is located in Bellefontaine Cemetery at 4947 West Florissant Ave.
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