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Louis beer market, a position it maintained until prohibition. In William Lemp purchased it for his family, utilizing it as both a residence and an auxiliary office. While the home was already impressive, Lemp immediately began renovating and expanding the thirty-three room house into a Victorian showplace.
From the mansion, a tunnel was built from the basement through the caves to the brewery. When mechanical refrigeration became available, parts of the cave were converted for other purposes, including a natural auditorium and a theatre.
This underground oasis would later spawn a large concrete swimming pool, with hot water piped in from the brewery boiling house, and a bowling alley. At one time, the theatre was accessible by way of a spiral staircase from Cherokee Street.
The Lemp Western Brewery was the first brewer to establish coast-to-coast distribution of its beer. At the same time he was building his own business empire, William, Sr. Frederick, who had never been in extremely good health, died of heart failure. Though he still arrived at the office each day, he was nervous and unsettled. His physical and mental health began to decline and on February 13, , he shot himself in the head with a.
In November , William Lemp Jr. Lemp Brewing Company. Inheriting the family business and a vast fortune, he and his wife, Lillian, began to spend the inheritance. Filling the house with servants, the pair spent huge amounts on carriages, clothing, and art. Lillian was a beautiful woman who came from a wealthy family herself. Lemp, III was born on September 26, When William began to tire of his beautiful wife, he demanded that she must spend her time shopping.
In the meantime, Will was busy running the brewery during the day and pursuing all manner of decadent activities during the night. Enjoying the swimming pool, the bowling alley, and the free-flowing beer, his friends who attended these lavish events were known to enjoy a high time in the earth below. Today, there is no official documentation that this boy existed. However, the rumors that this boy was hidden in the mansion attic for his entire life have been prevalent over the years. Finally, William, Jr.
The court proceedings surrounding the divorce became a major St. Louis scandal with all four St. Louis newspapers devoting extensive front-page coverage to the messy affair.
The trial opened in February to crowds that flocked to the courthouse each day to witness the drama of tales of violence, drunkenness, atheism, and cruelty. In the end, she retained custody of their son but soon retired from the public eye.
The only time that she was ever seen wearing anything other than lavender was on the final day of her divorce proceedings when she appeared entirely in black before the judge. In , nine of the large breweries in the St. Louis area had combined to form the Independent Breweries Company, creating fierce competition that the Lemp Brewery had never faced.
By World War I, the brewery was just barely limping along. William soon built a country home on the Meramec River, to which he increasingly retreated and in he married for a second time to Ellie Limberg, the widowed daughter of the late St. Louis brewer Casper Koehler. Then Prohibition came along in The individual family members were already wealthy so there was little incentive to keep the brewery afloat. For a time, Will hoped that Congress would repeal Prohibition but finally gave up and closed the Lemp plant down without notice.
The workers learned of the closing when they came to work one day and found the doors shut and the gates locked. Elsa was said to have been despondent over her rocky marriage. Liquidating the assets of the plant and auctioning the buildings, William, Jr.
The brewery buildings were sold to the International Shoe Co. Acting much like his father, he became increasingly nervous and erratic, shunning public life and often complaining of ill health. On December 29, , William shot himself, in the heart with a.
William, II took his life on the main level of the mansion, just inside the entrance to the left. At the time of his death, this room served as his office. He was interred in the family mausoleum at Bellefontaine Cemetery, in the crypt just above his sister Elsa. Edwin had entered into a life of seclusion at his estate in Kirkwood, Missouri in Charles had never been involved in the brewery and had chosen to work in the banking and real estate fields instead.
In , yet another tragedy occurred when William Lemp III died of a heart attack at the age of forty-two. Brother Charles eventually remodeled the mansion back into a residence and lived in the house along with two servants and the illegitimate child of his brother William. Charles, too, became an odd figure, as he grew older.
Developing a morbid fear of germs, his obsessive-compulsive behavior included wearing gloves at all times to avoid bacteria and constantly washing his hands. First, he shot his beloved Doberman Pinscher in the basement of the mansion.
Then, climbing the staircase to his room on the second floor, he shot himself. Charles was discovered on May 10, , by one of his staff, still holding a. Though the dog was shot in the basement, he was found halfway up the stairs. Louis, Missouri, by Amy Stark. Of the Lemps, only Edwin Lemp, who had long avoided the life that had turned so tragic for the rest of his family, remained. He was known as a quiet, reclusive man who had walked away from the Lemp Brewery in to live a peaceful life on a secluded estate in Kirkwood, Missouri.
Edwin passed away quietly of natural causes at age 90 in These irreplaceable pieces of history vanished in the smoke of a blazing bonfire. After the death of Charles Lemp, the mansion was sold and turned into a boarding house. Along with the nearby neighborhood, the building began to deteriorate, and the haunting tales began.
Residents complained of ghostly knocks and phantom footsteps being heard throughout the house. As these stories spread, tenants were hard to find for the boarding house and it continued to decline to a near flophouse status. However, in , the old mansion was saved when Dick Pointer and his family purchased it.
Immediately they began to renovate the building, turning it into a restaurant and inn. Workers within the house often told stories of apparitions, strange sounds, vanishing tools, and a feeling of being watched. Frightened by the hauntings, many would leave the job site never to return. Since the restaurant opened, staff members have reported several strange experiences. Again, apparitions appear and then quickly vanish, voices and sounds come from nowhere, and glasses will often lift off the bar flying through the air by themselves.
On other occasions, doors are said to lock and unlock by themselves, lights inexplicably turn on and off of their own free will, and the piano bar often plays when no one is near. It is this area of the basement that used to be the entrance to the caves running below the mansion and the brewery.
The haunted house features state of the art animations, sets, props, sound effects and special effects. The lighting highlights the natural gothic look of the walls, ceilings and more. Old rusty pipes and worn down machines from a time long ago still remain. Tens of thousands of dollars of monsters, dead zombie gangsters, a massive animated alligator, creepy rats, bats, and long lost brewery workers of the dead come out to haunt inside The Lemp Brewery Haunted House.
This attractions winds through several sections of the old brewery, spanning over 20, square feet of fear. So is the Lemp Brewery Haunted House really haunted? If there were ever a place on Earth that is haunted, I think this would be it. I can't imagine a place more rich with haunted history. If Hollywood wanted to shoot a new monster movie or a subterranean horror flick, they wouldn't have to build a single set if filming inside this place.
The Lemp Brewery Haunted House is one of the most unique and realistic haunts we've ever reviewed. We are telling you guys its haunted in there!!!
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