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Bellefontaine Cemetery is a nonprofit, non-denominational cemetery and arboretum in St. Louis, Missouri.Founded in 1849 as a rural cemetery, Bellefontaine has several architecturally significant monuments and mausoleums such as the Louis Sullivan-designed Wainwright Tomb, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Name Image Affiliation City Ewing and Muriel Kauffman Memorial Garden: Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation: Kansas City: McAlester Arboretum: University of Missouri
The Missouri Botanical Garden is a botanical garden located at 4344 Shaw Boulevard in St. Louis, Missouri. It is also known informally as Shaw's Garden for founder and philanthropist Henry Shaw . Its herbarium , with more than 6.6 million specimens, [ 3 ] is the second largest in North America, behind that of the New York Botanical Garden .
Magnolia groves and daffodil fields grace the Nature Reserve in the spring. Shaw Nature Reserve lies south of I-44 at Gray Summit, Missouri. Shaw Nature Reserve, formerly known as Shaw Arboretum, is a 2,400 acres (9.7 km 2) private non-profit nature reserve located in Gray Summit, Missouri, that is operated as an extension of the Missouri Botanical Garden.
The campus design was inspired by the Forest Park design for the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair which evolved into the campus for Washington University. In 1993, the state legislature designated Northwest the official Missouri State Arboretum. Thomas Gaunt first started planting trees on the campus when he moved to Maryville in 1857.
Tower Grove Park is a municipal park in St. Louis, Missouri.Located on the south side of the city, the elongated 289-acre (117 ha) park extends 1.6 miles (2.6 km) from Kingshighway Boulevard east to Grand Boulevard.
St Patrick's Church, Kilquade has a long history. The name Kilquade (Irish: Cill Comhghaid ) refers to St. Comghaid who had a hermit's cell or a church in the area. There was a Catholic community in the area in the 17th century, two chalices still in use, bear the inscription "Anno Domini 1633" and "24th November 1759".
The city of West Des Moines bought more than 19 acres of property for the arboretum in June 2023 for more than $2 million. Schoen and Dan Houston, fellow project co-leader and private donor ...