Lemp Mansion - St. Louis, Missouri
Posted by: BruceS
N 38° 35.591 W 090° 12.963
15S E 742462 N 4275309
The Lemp Mansion is considered to be the most haunted location in St Louis and in 1980 Life magazine called the Lemp Mansion one of the ten most haunted places in America
Waymark Code: WM1CMK
Location: Missouri, United States
Date Posted: 04/05/2007
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The Lemp mansion is a site of great fortune and great tragedy. The Lemp family
fortune was made in the late 1800's and early 1900's family owned Lemp brewery.
The brewery was one of the largest in the country. The family's tragedies began
with the death of Frederick Lemp in 1901 at the age of only 28. He was his
father's favorite son and was being groomed to take over the operations of the
company. The father William Sr. never fully recovered from his son death and
committed suicide in 1904. The business was then taken over by William Jr.
William Jr. along with this wife Lillian known as the "Lavender Lady" had a
proclivity of spending the family's fortune. The brewery business declined
during World War I and reached its demise during prohibition. The next tragedy
to strike the family was the suicide of William Jr.s sister Elsa Lemp Wright in
1920, she also shot herself in the mansion. William Jr next committed suicide in
1922. The last of the Lemp family to commit suicide in the mansion was William
Jr. brother Charles in 1949. The only surviving brother Edwin has left the
family business in 1913 and moved to an estate in Kirkwood and lived to an old
age of 90 years. The Lemp family may have all died but it does not seem they
have all left the Mansion. For a fuller description of the Lemp family and the
mansion (visit
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The Lemp Mansion is now operated as a restaurant and bed and breakfast. To see
current activities at the Lemp Mansion (
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Ghost tours are also conducted at the Lemp Mansion (
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