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6 unusual facts about Lemp Mansion


Lemp Mansion

"Cragwold", in western Kirkwood, had an observation tower, two servants' houses, and a collection of birds, antelope, sheep, yaks, buffalo and other animals.

Cragwold, the St. Louis County estate house of Edwin A. Lemp

Lemp was one of the first in the country to produce German lager, which was a great difference from the English ale and porters.

The original patriarch of the Lemp Family was Johann "Adam" Lemp, born in 1798 in GrĂ¼ningen, Germany.

It is also the site of three suicides by Lemp family members after the death of the son Frederick Lemp, whose William J. Lemp Brewing Co. dominated the St. Louis beer market before Prohibition with its Falstaff beer brand.

In 2009, the mansion was investigated by the Discovery Channel program Ghost Lab during its December 29 episode entitled "If Walls Could Talk".



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