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Cherokee-Lemp ties a south-city street to brewery history

The Cherokee-Lemp Historic District gives St. Louis a south-city landmark story built around old commercial blocks, the DeMenil home, and Lemp Brewery.

Cherokee-Lemp Historic District gives south St. Louis a place story with buildings close enough to read from the sidewalk.

The City Cultural Resources page places the district between two city landmarks: the DeMenil home from 1849 and the Lemp Brewery from 1862. The same page says most of the 81 structures in the eleven-block district date from the late 1860s to 1915.

That is why Cherokee Street can feel layered. It is a commercial street, but it also sits between mansion, brewery, storefront, and neighborhood history. A person walking it can see how older south-city fabric still shapes today’s blocks.

Use the city historic-district page and map before treating a building or storefront as part of the district.

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