Today Hubby Tony and I tackled another chapter in our scavenger hunt book, choosing to look for the items in the Central West End, a neighborhood that has a lot of turn of the 20th century architecture, including huge mansions on private streets. We had a great time finding the homes of literary notables, buildings old and new, businesses, and cultural institutions. We're finding out that each chapter of the book contains a couple of stumpers, places that we don't know anything about.
Today we were studying a building, looking for the small detail in the book's photograph, when a police officer walked by. I wanted to make sure he didn't think we were casing the place, so I offered a quick explanation of what we were doing. He seemed interested, and asked if he could help us find anything. I read him one of the stumper clues. He said he had no idea, but pulled out his phone to research it, saying he wouldn't share the information with us. Three minutes later we had walked down to the other end of the block when the officer found us. He asked if we wanted to know what he found (we did), and he gave us the address.
The reason the house was notable? It was the location of the first cocktail party in 1917.
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We thanked the officer and continued on our way. Eventually we stopped for lunch, but afterwards we drove by the cocktail party house. It was an imposing building, and one that I was familiar with. The book's clue mentioned the house was close to a church. That church would be the New Cathedral, and the house is the official residence for the archbishops of the Archdiocese of St. Louis.
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Fascinating.
ReplyDeleteInteresting.
ReplyDeleteWow! Very interesting. Right before Prohibition. Linda in dry Kansas
ReplyDeleteWho would have guessed that? This was very interesting.
ReplyDeleteFunny. A cop comes up to you asking you what you're doing and you put him to work. Way to go!
ReplyDeleteYes, because two late middle aged white people are so suspicious :-)
DeleteYou have a lot of patience searching for clues.
ReplyDeleteGod bless.
It's fun, and we're learning a lot about the city.
DeleteI don't know why, but that story strikes me as funny. So that's how the other half lived in 1917... in drunken hilarity!
ReplyDeleteI agree there's a lot of humor here.
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ReplyDeleteWell behaved police officer!
Architecture draws my curiosity in many cases,but I've lost the patience
to look for information.
eVeryone gets bored I guess, even in the old days and dreams up such things as cocktail parties.
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