Benton Park

Well, year three comes around and, you know, we already out maxed the capacity of those buildings.

So year three is when we kind of took a leap of faith and ended up shutting down nearly four city blocks of Benton Park.

Yeah.

All around Lenten Mansion, Lenten Grand Hall, Lenten Brewery, all those areas.

So real quick before I go, anybody you want to give a quick shout out to?

Yeah, all of our sponsors, all of our partners in the neighborhood who work with us, we're having to shut down these businesses for basically 48 hours to set this up and tear it down.

So we appreciate all of them, Benton Park, City of St. Louis.

The Pointer family, who owns and operates the Linton Mansion and Grand Hall, they've been instrumental in helping us put this thing out every year.

Prior to seeing this, but we'll let you know if we're ever in St. Louis.

So the mansion itself, it sits at 3322 Deminal Place in St. Louis's Benton Park neighborhood.

And it was built in the 1860s by a man named Jacob Fikert.

Shortly after the construction was finished, the mansion was purchased by a man named William J. Lemp.

And the family eventually operated a huge brewery complex that covered several city blocks.

So, the Lemp Mansion is basically a historical house, you know, in Benton Park, St. Louis, Missouri.

So... um adam lemp he basically he was born in uh gruningen grugenin i don't know how you say it but it's like g-r-u-n-i-n-g-e-n germany gruningen I'm not sure how you pronounce it, but it's German, you know? And he ended up arriving in the United States in 1836, and he eventually settled in St.

Louis.

Located on, how do you say that? Demanil? Demanil? I've never even heard of that street.

Demino Place in St. Louis' Benton Park neighborhood.

The Lemp Stables, another event space associated with the mansion at 1817 Cherokee Street, is also available.

They were advertised last week on the Facebook page, and longtime fans and visitors have expressed hope that the new owners will maintain the mansion's historic character.

Okay.

Right? So I used to have this customer in Benton Park.

I don't know if you know where that is.

I do.

It's a very, very old money, wealthy district.

Well, I was selling marijuana to this elderly couple, and I had brought all my running gear to go run the Benton Park afterwards.

And it was nighttime, and I took off and immediately had to go to the bathroom, and none of those people would let me use their house to go to the bathroom.

So I ended up having to go in the middle of Benton Park Square, which is like this really nice fenced-in garden thing.

One of St. Louis' most famous historic haunted homes is up for sale.

As St. Louis Public Radio's Rebecca Thiel reports, after running the Lemp Mansion in the Benton Park neighborhood for more than 50 years, the owners are ready to retire.

The mansion

was built in the early 1860s and was the home of William Lemp, who was a famous brewer up until Prohibition forced his business to close.