campbell house museum st louis 7R2_DSC0556_16-09-01
by Greg Kluempers
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campbell house museum st louis 7R2_DSC0556_16-09-01
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Greg Kluempers
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Photograph - Photography
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The Campbell House Museum commemorates the home and Victorian lifestyle of Robert Campbell and his wife Virginia Kyle Campbell. The house was first built in 1851 by John Hall. Hall sold it to Cornelia Hempsted Wilson in 1853 and she lived in the house for only one year. Robert Campbell purchased the house in 1854, and he and his family lived there until the death of his last surviving child in 1938. The building was located at 20 Lucas Place. Lucas Place was a new residential street created around 1850 by siblings James Lucas and Ann Lucas hunt.
Robert Campbell purchased the house for around $18,000 and soon after moving in, enlarged the back of the house adding a larger kitchen, dining room, and more servant bedrooms. In 1867 the Campbell family continued renovations including: combining the two front parlors into one larger space; adding a three-story bay window on the east side, and adding three extra rooms on the third floor. In 1885 an exterior porch was enclosed and the Morning Room created. In 1900 Lucas Place became known as Locust Street and the house was renumbered to 1508 Locust Street; its current address.
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September 12th, 2016
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