DUTCHTOWN
BEVO MILL / MARINE VILLA
History
Dutchtown was the original site of Concordia Seminary
Anzeiger des Westens, a German-American newspaper of St. Louis, for a time in the 1840s it had the largest circulation of any paper in Missouri
August Busch Sr. built the restaurant and five-story windmill in 1917 along Gravois
In 1890 the streetcar came through the Marine Villa, creating an explosion in population and construction.
Lemp Brewery introduced Lager Beer to the city around 1840 on South Second Street.
Happenings
Oktoberfest
Highlights
The Bevo Mill Restaurant, namesake of the neighborhood
BBevo Mill neighborhood is populated with immigrants particularly Bosnian & Croation Americans
Flounder houses are simple but unique vernacular homes often of one-and-a-half stories a shed roof