Public Schedule April 30, 2024 United States Department of State

Table Of Content

• History
• Tour Reservations
• A glimmer of history and beauty amongst desert terrain
• See what visitors have to say
• Fox 7 photographer among those arrested at University of Texas at Austin

The university closed its campus Wednesday evening as LAPD began arresting demonstrators. Campbell House is included with regular Museum admission and is available for self-guided tours Tuesday through Sunday from 12-4 pm. Please confirm your Campbell House visit with the Visitor Services staff when you buy your tickets or check-in. In 1885, an exhaus­tive series of pho­tographs was tak­en through­out the house, com­piled into an album, and then lost until the late 20th cen­tu­ry when they were redis­cov­ered and used as the basis for our mul­ti-mil­lion dol­lar restora­tion project.

History

All facades are of fin­ished and paint­ed brick, except the unpaint­ed west facade. Although it looks like a row house, it was nev­er attached to any­thing. The Camp­bell House rep­re­sents an impor­tant tran­si­tion­al peri­od in hous­ing design. Phys­i­cal inves­ti­ga­tion of the build­ing’s fab­ric helps fill in the gaps in the archival record. Changes to the inte­ri­or became vis­i­ble after care­ful exam­i­na­tion of plas­ter walls, con­struc­tion mate­ri­als, and shad­ow marks that often indi­cat­ed an ear­li­er loca­tion of door­ways, walls, and stairs. Detailed paint analy­sis through­out the house pro­vid­ed the col­or palette and pat­terns for wall sten­cil­ing, wood­work and oth­er dec­o­ra­tion.

Tour Reservations

Flex­i­ble appoint­ments for these pro­grams and tours are avail­able every day of the year except nation­al hol­i­days. The rate for groups of 10 or more is $5 per stu­dent, schools are encour­aged to con­tact the Muse­um to dis­cuss pric­ing. The final major alter­ations came in 1867, when the Camp­bells embarked on a grand tour of Europe. While they were away, Robert had the par­lor recon­fig­ured, added two bays to both the main house and the floun­der wing, and added a third floor to the floun­der. The three sur­viv­ing sons made only a few changes of their own, con­vert­ing the house to elec­tric­i­ty and adding a bath­room to the sec­ond floor. The California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt campus will remain closed through the weekend as protesters, including "unidentified non-students," continue to occupy two buildings, school officials said in an update.

A glimmer of history and beauty amongst desert terrain

Celebrating its 50th anniversary in 1942, local St. Louis department store, Stix, Baer and Fuller purchased the house from Yale University and presented it to the people of St. Louis through the Campbell House Foundation. The house had been left to Yale University by the will of the oldest Campbell son, Hugh in honor of the youngest James, who had died at the young age of 30 and who had attended Yale University. Edu­ca­tion­al tours are designed to incor­po­rate a vari­ety of top­ics and themes. Some sug­gest­ed top­ics are list­ed below, and we wel­come any top­ics not list­ed. Vis­i­tors are wel­come to choose one or more top­ics to be incor­po­rat­ed into the gen­er­al tour.

If we are able to accom­mo­date your tour request, we ask that you pay in advance using the link we will pro­vide you. If you would rather, you can also sched­ule your vis­it by call­ing us at (314) 421‑0325 dur­ing nor­mal busi­ness hours (M‑F, 9–5 p.m.). The first floor interior, on two levels, provides a sense of drama.

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The interior restoration began in the Spring 2001 and was completed in 2005 restoring the house as closely as possible to its appearance in the 1885 photographs. When the foundation got possession of the house in 1942 they immediately began raising funds to refurbish the interior with new wallpaper, paint and carpets. This redecoration reflected a mid-20th-century concept of the Campbell's Victorian interior and was not an accurate restoration of what had existed in the 19th century.

Camp­bell busi­ness records can also be found in the Sub­lette papers. The orig­i­nal house was of a large town­house design — a rec­tan­gu­lar plan, three floors with an attic and Eng­lish base­ment and a two sto­ry floun­der wing at the rear. The cast iron bal­cony on the front of the house is Goth­ic in detail, while the front entry­way is in the Greek-Revival style pop­u­lar dur­ing the 1840s.

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Other features include a den, decorated in the popular Middle Eastern style, well-planned service areas, and four upstairs bedrooms. Both the Campbells and the Finches hired renowned Spokane architect Kirtland K. Cutter to design their new homes near each other in Browne’s Addition. Finch, the conservative financier, chose a Neoclassical Revival style. Campbell, the bold mining venturer, chose a more picturesque English Tudor Revival exterior of stucco, sandstone, brick and heavy timbers.

This col­lec­tion from the St. Louis Cir­cuit Court con­tains the records from the Hazlett K. Camp­bell estate case that began in 1938. The col­lec­tion is made up of tes­ti­mo­ny and evi­dence from indi­vid­u­als (both legit­i­mate and not legit­i­mate) mak­ing claim to the Camp­bell estate. Pri­mar­i­ly con­sists of genealog­i­cal records–birth, death and mar­riage cer­tifi­cates in addi­tion to pho­tographs, per­son­al let­ters and oth­er doc­u­ments dat­ing from the 1760s to the 1930s.

CT, 34 arrests have been made by law enforcement on the UT Austin campus, according to an X post from the Texas Department of Public Safety. The University of Texas at Austin Police Department said in a statement on X Wednesday evening that "the dispersal order at the South Mall has ended. All University rules are still in effect." The board said it is "urgently working" with Shafik to resolve the unrest on campus and "rebuild the bonds of our community."

This immersive dance-theatre experience invites audiences to choose to act as witness or accomplice to the characters’ stories. An immersive horror opera, Tales of the Grotesque invites visitors to explore Victorian Toronto through the eyes of literature’s most twisted author, Edgar Allan Poe, and come tapping at the door to the unknown. When her dreams invade the waking world, a misfit storyteller leaves high society behind as she’s whisked away to a universe of her own making.

Joined by a quarrelsome fairy and the boy who taught her to fly, she quickly discovers that a life of adventure comes at a price. With the memory of her family fading, she and her companions must outwit a hungry crocodile, brawl with pirates, and find the magic within themselves to return home again, or remain in the land of make-believe forever. This is a beautiful house in downtown St. Louis which contains all the original furnishings.

There is a mul­ti-pur­pose room that can be uti­lized for bagged lunch­es. Bus­es are autho­rized to park at meters on the street with­out pay­ing a park­ing meter. In 1853, hav­ing nev­er lived in the house, Hall sold it to Mrs. Cor­nelia Wil­son. Unusu­al­ly for a woman of her time, Wil­son owned the house in her own right, liv­ing there for 18 months with her husband. As any­one who lives in an old house knows, restora­tion and main­te­nance has no end-date. For more infor­ma­tion on the restora­tion, please con­tact the Muse­um or click here to make a donation.