Spend All Hallow's Eve exploring the Campbell House after dark! Guests have the rare opportunity to experience Campbell House after dark and take a closer look at the unhappy chapters of loss and despair that defined much of the Campbell family’s 84 years spent at #20 Lucas Place (today 1508 Locust Street). Guests are encouraged […]
Join Campbell House Museum and Hanley House Directors Andy Hahn and Sarah Umlauf for a special presentation on food in nineteenth century St. Louis city versus St. Louis county. In honor of the recent publication of The Gilded Table: Recipes and Table History from the Campbell House, the presentation will be followed by a tasting of nineteenth century […]
Yuletide Traditions: From the Gilded Age to Today | Throughout the Missouri History Museum The Gilded Table: Recipes and Table History from the Campbell House, written by food historian and St. Louis author Suzanne Corbett, features 178 recipes from Virginia Campbell's original handwritten collection and provides an intimate glimpse at how the wealth created by […]
UPDATE: This venue for the 2016 Campbell House lecture has been changed to the AUDITORIUM of CENTRAL LIBRARY. Please use the Locust Street entrance. The date and time of the lecture remain the same. Because of the venue change, reservations are no longer required. Join the Campbell House for our annual lecture in the spring. […]
Annual members are the Campbell House Museum's lifeblood - they fund education programming for local schools, help keep the lights on in our historic buildings and preserve St. Louis history and heritage. Join us in the garden of the Campbell House Museum for wine, hors d'oeuvres and a special 20% discount on the Museum Store's […]
Join Union Avenue Opera and the Campbell House Museum on for the 5th Annual Arias in the Afternoon benefiting the Campbell House Museum and Union Avenue Opera Ces and Judy’s Catering will provide a light lunch and there will also be featured items from Virginia Campbell’s own original recipes for Roman Punch, and deserts from […]
Join the Campbell House Museum and Cameron Collins, award-winning author of local history blog Distilled History for an after-work evening celebrating St. Louis history through the lens of beer and spirits. Grab a beer and a bite to eat, tour the historic Campbell House. This outdoor event is free to members of the public aged 21+.
Join the staff of the Campbell House Museum for a walking tour of the 1875 neighborhood of Lucas Place, St. Louis’ first private place and an enclave of Gilded Age wealth and nineteenth century elegance. Spanning from 13th to 16th Streets in Downtown St. Louis, participants will walk a street once lined with expansive homes, […]
See the parlor dressed for mourning and hear about mourning customs, explore the Museum after dark and learn about the ancient customs and folklore surrounding Snap-Apple Night, an old Scots-Irish tradition celebrating Halloween. A Victorian mourning dress will be in special display for the event. Cost: $15 per person, members are $5, reservation required. Please […]
Join the staff of the Campbell House Museum for a walking tour of the 1875 neighborhood of Lucas Place, St. Louis’ first private place and an enclave of Gilded Age wealth and nineteenth century elegance. Spanning from 13th to 16th Streets in Downtown St. Louis, participants will walk a street once lined with expansive homes, […]
The 2017 Annual Lecture will be presented by Dr. Kenneth Winn, Historian and Former Archivist of the State of Missouri. During the 1850s St. Louis’s preeminent slave trader Bernard Lynch handled the trade for St. Louis’s elite. While Lynch sold slaves locally, he sold more “down the river” to places like Natchez and New Orleans. […]
Annual members are the Campbell House Museum's lifeblood - they fund education programming for local schools, help keep the lights on in our historic buildings and preserve St. Louis history and heritage. Join us in the garden of the Campbell House Museum for wine, hors d'oeuvres and members receive a 20% discount on the Museum […]
