Photographer Maureen Minich
Photographer Florence Flick
Bevo Mill was flood 21, first visited by Photo Flood STL in April 2014. Here is the link to the original article with an extensive write up on the area.
http://www.photofloodstl.org/photo-flood-21-bevo-mill/
Photographer Mike Matney
Photographer Bob Crowe
Clay deposits discovered in the 1830s led to the areas growth. With the opening of clay furnaces and product plants came the alignment of the Oak Hill rail line, connecting Missouri Pacific’s mainline in Mill Creek Valley with its Iron Mountain Railroad along the Mississippi in Old Carondelet. German immigrants who worked the mines settled in Bevo and started businesses at the crossroads along Gravois and Morganford, the street connecting running between subdivisions on its east and mines on its west.
Photographer Emil Davidzuk
Photographer Caren Libby
Photographer Dennis Daugherty
Located in south St. Louis the neighborhood gets its name from the large windmill that is at the intersection of Gravois and Morganford. The Bevo Mill was constructed in 1917 by August Busch Sr. In the style of an European beer garden, it is halfway between the brewery and the Bush home at Grant’s farm. The architects that built it are the same that built the famous stables at Grant’s farm.
Photographer Diane Sieckmann
Photographer Sue Rakers
Photographer Joe Rakers
The mill became a city landmark in 1971. It operated under the name Bevo Mill until closing in 2009. In 2017 it was renamed Das Bevo and operates as a restaurant and event venue.
Like many neighborhoods in St. Louis there was significant population loss over the yars. In the 1990s refugees from the wars in Bosnia and Croatia moved to the United States, most coming to St. Louis. Over 70,000 refugees now call the area home, the largest population per capita of Bosnians and Croats outside of Europe.
Photographer Maureen Minich
Photographer Florence Flick
Photographer Sue Rakers
Photographer Emil Davidzuk
Photographer Mike Matney
Photographer Caren Libby
Photographer Diane Sieckmann
Photographer Bob Crowe
Photographer Joe Rakers
Photographer Mike Matney
