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Who really designed the Lemp Brewery’s buildings?

One of my favorite books in the collection of the Missouri History Museum Archives is Edmund Jungenfeld & Co’s 1892 Portfolio of Breweries and Other Kindred Plants. This little book is a treasure ...
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How the Lemp Brewery became a St. Louis landmark—and helped usher in the modern brewing era

Perhaps the greatest irony of Compton and Dry’s invaluable depiction of the Lemp Brewery in 1875 was that it was already obsolete by 1876 when the giant atlas was published. While lithographers were ...