Anheuser-Busch Brewery (St. Louis, Missouri)

Infobox_nrhp | name =Anheuser-Busch Brewery
nrhp_type = nhld


caption = The packaging plant in Saint Louis, Missouri
location= 721 Pestalozzi, St. Louis, Missouri
lat_degrees = 38
lat_minutes = 35
lat_seconds = 51
lat_direction = N
long_degrees = 90
long_minutes = 12
long_seconds = 44
long_direction = W
locmapin = Missouri
area =142 acres
built =1875
architect= Unknown
architecture= Romanesque
designated= November 13, 1966cite web|url=http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=715&ResourceType=District
title=Anheuser-Busch Brewery |accessdate=2008-06-28|work=National Historic Landmark summary listing|publisher=National Park Service]
added = November 13, 1966cite web|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/|title=National Register Information System|date=2008-04-15|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service]
governing_body = Private
refnum=66000945The Anheuser-Busch Brewery, in St. Louis, Missouri is a National Historic Landmark District. Anheuser-Busch world headquarters is located in St. Louis, Missouri. The brewery there, the largest of the Anheuser-Busch breweries, was opened in 1852 and includes three buildings that are known to be listed as National Historic Landmarks, but in fact a large area including many buildings was designated.

Historic Landmark

The brewery was designated a U.S. National Historic Landmark in 1966.citation|title=PDFlink| [http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NHLS/Text/66000945.pdf National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: Anheuser-Busch Brewery] |32 KB|date=April, 1978 |author=Cecil McKithan and Stephen Lissandrello |publisher=National Park Service and PDFlink| [http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NHLS/Photos/66000945.pdf "Accompanying four photos, from 1895, ca. 1900, 1942, and ca. 1970"] |32 KB] The landmarked area includes 189 structures spread over 142 acres, including many red brick Romanesque ones "with square crenelated towers and elaborate details." The Brew House, built in 1891-1892, is particularly notable for its "multi-storied hop chandelier, intricate iron-work, and utilization of natural light".

Tours

At the headquarters, near downtown Saint Louis, free tours of the brewery are available to the public. The tour takes visitors through the complex, and those of the legal age can enjoy two free glasses of any Anheuser-Busch product in the Hospitality Room at the end of the tour. Tourists can see beer being made live in front of them in hot and steamy vats in a working part of the brewery (from behind plexiglas shields).

Clydesdales

The company keeps a rotation of its famous Budweiser Clydesdales at its headquarters, and visitors to the brewery can observe the Clydesdales in their exercise field and see their places in the carriage house. The bulk of the herd is kept at the company farm in St. Louis County. The farm, known to many a St. Louisan as Grant's Farm (having been owned by former President Ulysses S. Grant at one time), is also home to a varied menagerie of animals. The current manager of the famous Clydesdales is Benjamin Underwood.

References

External links

* [http://www.anheuser-busch.com/ Anheuser-Busch Website]
* [http://www.budweisertours.com/docs/stltour.htm Anheuser-Busch Web Page on the St. Louis Brewery Tour]
* [http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.mo00926 Anheuser-Busch Brewery, Broadway & Pestalozzi , Saint Louis, St. Louis City County, MO]
* 3 photos, 2 data pages, at Historic American Building Survey