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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 Wainwright Tomb, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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 ...
A considerable number of unmarked burials remain at the now-decertified cemetery. The article in The St. Louis Republic included rough photos and drawings of the site. [5] This old cemetery is not related to the Bellefontaine Cemetery established in 1849 on the road leading to Fort Belle Fontaine, and initially called the Rural Cemetery. [6]
Calvary Cemetery. 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 of General William Tecumseh ...
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]
John R. Anderson, also known as J. Richard Anderson (1818–May 20, 1863), was an American minister from St. Louis, Missouri, who fought against slavery and for education for African Americans. As a boy, he was an indentured servant, who attained his freedom at the age of 12. Anderson worked as a typesetter for the Missouri Republican and for ...
English: Built in 1892, this Sullivanesque and Chicago School-style mausoleum was designed by Louis Sullivan for Charlotte Dickson Wainwright, and her husband, Ellis Wainwright, a brewery owner, who had commissioned Sullivan to design the Wainwright Building in Downtown St. Louis, which was completed around the same time as Charlotte’s death.
Grave at Bellefontaine Cemetery, St. Louis. Brockmeyer's personality and thought had a strong impact on all who met him. Writer Lilian Whiting wrote that his "strange personality dominated everyone", despite the fact that he "had no converse with social amenities." [6] Brockmeyer openly heckled Bronson Alcott when he spoke in St. Louis. [7]