The Historic Inventory
of St. Louis County Buildings

Since 1957, the St. Louis County Historic Buildings Commission has been identifying and studying old buildings throughout the county. As of 1999, we have information about more than 4,600 buildings on standardized Historic Inventory forms. The following program allows you to locate these buildings in one of several ways and to learn some basic information about them. The full forms are available at the Clayton office of the St. Louis County Department of Parks and Recreation; for more information, call Esley Hamilton at 314-615-0357, or e-mail him at ehamilton@stlouisco.com

The following fields of information are available:
•Locator number (assigned by the county assessor)
•Present name: The name of the first owner or other historical name by which the building is known
•Other name: The street address
•Specific location: For buildings in towns, the subdivision name, lot number and block number; for rural buildings, the section or survey number, congressional township, and range, or other land subdivision.
•City or town; if Rural, Township & Vicinity
•On National Register? yes or no
•Part of Established Historic District? yes or no
•Date(s) or Period: The actual date of construction taken from a building permit, or an estimated date, indicated by "c" for "circa."
•Style or Design: The architectural style of the building
•Architect or Engineer:
•Contractor or Builder:
•Original Use, if apparent
•Present Use

Below are the links to the Historic Buildings divided by regions. Once on the page you can use the "edit find" command in page feature of your browser to locate specific buildings.

NOTE: Please be patient! Some of these pages are L-A-R-G-E and will take time to download. Once downloaded your browser may seem to freeze while it processes the information. Be patient, the wait will be worth it!