it's kind of awkward, thanks to the victorian additions, but the old rock house holds a certain mystique (and is a reborn venue which sort of was reconstructed to look like this) from the fur trading days of st. louis, as it was originally a fur warehouse before being a tavern. it was already well over 100 years old when this photo was taken, it would have been at least 200 years old this year:
st. louis post dispatch
parts of it were saved and are in the arch national park museum but it was demolished for the arch by the 50s.
it was originally constructed by louisiana territory born spanish frontiersman manuel lisa early in the 19th century...sort of a linkage to the spanish-colonial history of st. louis.
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