Campbell House Museum
The history
1508 Locust Street, built 1851 — the last house standing of Lucas Place, the city's first private street and its most fashionable address. Robert Campbell, a Scots-Irish fur trader who crossed the Rockies with Jedediah Smith and outfitted the mountain-man trade out of St. Louis, bought it in 1854 and his family lived in it until 1938. What makes it extraordinary is that the Campbells' own furniture, wallpaper, carpets and curtains are still in the rooms, and a set of 1885 photographs of every interior survived to guide the restoration — the most completely documented Victorian house in the country. It opened as a museum in 1943.
In brief
The Campbell House Museum opened on February 6, 1943, and is in the Greater St. Louis area, in the U.S. state of Missouri. The museum was documented as part of the Historic American Buildings Survey between 1936 and 1941, designated a City of St. Louis Landmark in 1946, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977, and became a National Trust for Historic Preservation Save America's Treasures project in 2000. The museum is owned and operated by the Campbell House Foundation, Inc. a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.
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