The Sunset Hills Historical Society (SHHS) February meeting will feature a program by local author Annie Amantea Blum, author of The Steamer Admiral, on Monday, February 25 at 7 PM at the Sunset Hills City Hall, 3939 South Lindbergh Blvd. Most of us who grew up in the St. Louis area are familiar with the…
The Sunset Hills Historical Society (SHHS) March meeting will be the first of a ‘home stand’ series of programming that will feature local authors speaking on legends and lore of the St. Louis Cardinals. The opener of the series on Monday, March 25, at 7 PM are authors Rob Rains and Sally Tippett Rains, who have…
Sunset Hill Historical Society 2019 event schedule January 28 – Diane Rademacher – Author of Famous Firsts of St. Louis February 25 – Ann Blum – Author of The Steamer Admiral March 25 – Sally & Rob Rains – Co-authors – All Roads Lead to St. Louis A guide to the Cardinals and their Minor League Teams April 13 – Earth Day at the…
September 19 – “The Great Pyramids of St. Louis: An Ancient Metropolis” by Mark Leach at Friendship Village South in Sunset Hills. Mark Leach details the history of the mounds and the culture of the Native American population. Approximately 1000 years ago, the St. Louis area was the very epicenter of an extraordinary explosion of…
July 18 – “St. Louis State Hospital: A 150-Year Journey toward Hope” by Amanda Hunyar at Friendship Village South in Sunset Hills. While the St. Louis State Hospital dome has loomed over the St. Louis skyline for 150 years, the goings-on behind the closed doors of this mysterious complex of South City buildings has been the…
June 20 – “Celebration: : The Magic of the Cardinals in the 1980s” by Dan O’Neill at Friendship Village South in Sunset Hills. On the history of the baseball Cardinals in the 1980’s. Cardinals baseball has become more than a pastime in St. Louis. The association with baseball and all things red is a regional…
“St Louis Sound” by Amanda Doyle From the French fiddlers of the fur trading days to the rock and hip hop icons of the present millennium, St. Louis has been a town rich in musical history. Though it has rarely been cited as a center of any scene, any area that has been home to…
See Barbara Kay portray Virginia Minor at Friendship Village South in Sunset Hills on Thursday November 21, 2019. Virginia Minor was a Missouri suffragette who fought for the right of women to vote. In 1872, she tried unsuccessfully to register to vote. She sued for the right and her suit went all the way to the…
Learn More about our Participating Sites Want to know when, where, and times a site will be open? Scroll below to learn about all of the historic houses, museums, and private homes of Historic Saint Louis. Bellefontaine Cemetery 4947 W. Florissant, St. Louis, MO 63115 314-381-0750 Admission: free Come visit the picturesque 314 acres of…
World War One ended with armistice 100 years ago next Sunday morning at 11:00 am, November 11, 1918; 11-11-11. How about joining the celebration of this great event by having your local church ring its bells 21 times at 11:00 am? Think it a sign of peace and hope. There are six churches covered in…
Explore St Louis article on Soldiers memorial November 3 The grand reopening will begin with a 9 am concert honoring veterans, followed by a formal ceremony at 10 am. Brigadier General Jeannie M. Leavitt, a St. Louis native and the US Air Force’s first female fighter pilot, will give the keynote address. Discover the new…
Sappington-Concord Historical Society Offers Reprints of History Book The Sappington-Concord Historical Society has had such demand for the local history book Sappington – Concord, A History, that the original has been scanned and reprinted and is now available for sale. Most households in the neighborhood already own copies of the forest green, yearbook-sized book Sappington-Concord, A History. But by…
“The Sappington-Dressel Home: A Heritage Preserved” October 13, 2018 – 9:00 a.m. till 3:00 p.m. Tour/discussion – free to the public Due to the great interest in this program, we are offering it again on a Saturday to accommodate our visitors. The home was constructed sometime between 1804 and 1810 on what is now Gravois…
