Barnum's St. Louis Hotel

Barnum's St. Louis Hotel was a historic 6-floor hotel built in 1854.[1] The Barnums were a family of hotel keepers who had run the famous Barnum's City Hotel in Baltimore.[2] This building was located at the 2nd and Walnut Streets in St. Louis, Missouri, and has been considered to be St. Louis' first high-rise building. The hotel was designed by architect George I. Barnett.

The famous former slave Dred Scott worked as a porter here from 1857 until his death.[3] Dred Scott's new owners had freed him two months after the U.S. Supreme Court decision. Scott became a local celebrity, greeting visitors at the hotel until he died of tuberculosis on September 17, 1858.[4] Others employed there include Benjamin Frisby, who was borrowed from the hotel for a day to open Johns Hopkins Hospital (JHH) on 7 May 1889, and then never returned to the hotel.[5]

Famous guests included Henry Clay and Illinois Governor Richard Yates.[6]

Brother Frank and William Roberson had a barbershop beneath it. The hotel was demolished in 1890.[6]

References

  1. ^ "Barnum's Hotel". Archived from the original on May 7, 2018. Retrieved May 6, 2018.
  2. ^ Walter Barlow Stevens (1909). St. Louis, the Fourth City, 1764-1909, Volume 1. St. Louis: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company. p. 782.
  3. ^ Valerie Battle Kienzle (2017). Lost St. Louis. Charleston, SC: The History Press. p. 83.
  4. ^ "Barnum's Hotel". May 22, 2014. Retrieved May 6, 2018.
  5. ^ Bause, George S. (2020). "Frisby, Benjamin A. (c. 1852-1936) and Herbert Milton Frisby (1886-1983)". In Bryan, Charles S. (ed.). Sir William Osler: An Encyclopedia (First ed.). Novato, California: Norman Publishing History of Science.com in association with the American Osler Society. pp. 275–276. ISBN 978-0-930405-91-5.
  6. ^ a b "An Old Hostelry No More". Dade County Advocate. December 18, 1890.

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