Doug Houser

Retired autoworker. Maplewood resident since 1975. Advocate of the Arts and Historic Preservation.

Maplewood History: Annie Sutton Sappington poses with their 1914 Brass Age Automobile and More!

More Extraordinary Images From The Collection Of The Missouri Historical Society A Tale of Two Albums - Part Six As I have mentioned in past posts,...

Maplewood History: Margaret L. Sutton, nee Smith – of our first pioneer family

In my last post, A Tale of Two Albums - Part Five, alert readers may recall that in a couple of the images of...

Maplewood History: Rare Images Give Us A Look At The Newly Built McGregor Bakery/Powhatan Theater Building?!!

More Extraordinary Images From The Collection Of The Missouri Historical Society A Tale of Two Albums - Part Five This post has been a difficult one...

Maplewood History: See For Yourself: Ultra Rare Images of our First Pioneer’s Home, the Sutton Mansion!

More Extraordinary Images From The Collection Of The Missouri Historical Society A Tale of Two Albums - Part Four By now, if you have been following...

Maplewood History: Ultra Rare Images of our Oldest Home, Woodside, are Discovered!

More Extraordinary Images From The Collection Of The Missouri Historical Society A Tale of Two Albums - Part Three Long time followers of this blog probably...

Maplewood History: An Ultra Rare Image of the Ellendale Train Depot is Discovered!

More Extraordinary Images From The Collection Of The Missouri Historical Society A Tale of Two Albums - Part Two The Missouri Historical Society has (in their...

Don’t Miss the Federal Art Project Exhibition at SLAM

But the show is lacking one of Maplewood's best. There is a wonderful exhibition of drawings and prints at the St. Louis Art Museum. It...

Maplewood History: Ultra Rare Images of a Missing Bank Building Are Found!

In 2014, on this website, I created four posts about the Bank of Maplewood. The Bank first occupied a building on the northeast corner...

Maplewood History: A Pre-Big Bang Explosion? Yep.

https://40southnews.com/maplewood-history-another-explosion-this-one-in-1910/

Maplewood History: The Big Bang!

It has been almost exactly 119 years since this Big Bang in Maplewood. It's been almost exactly 10 years since I first ran this...

Maplewood History: The Maplewood Mill and Stair Company – 3 Parts

Hard to believe that it's been ten years since I ran these three posts. It is definitely time to run them again. I will...

Maplewood History: Paul Christman – A Maplewood Legend with a Super Bowl Connection

This Sunday, many of us will be watching one of the most popular games in the history of sports...the Super Bowl! If you had tuned...

Maplewood History: The Legacy of the Dancing Schwartzmans

Since this is from an earlier post, different businesses occupy the building today. According to the St. Louis County historian, Esley Hamilton, (now retired) this...

Maplewood History: The Big Bend Quarry

As the land we occupy today was gradually converted from farmland to urban property, it was necessary to have many quarries to provide crushed...

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