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Episode 8: The Lemp Mansion — Bitter Brews and Limestone Vaults
Beneath the red-brick pavement of South St. Louis lies miles of hollow, prehistoric limestone caverns. In the late 1800s, that cold, subterranean underworld wasn't viewed as a void—it was viewed as an empire. It became the natural cold-storage engine behind the Western Brewery, a sprawling industrial titan that turned the Lemp family into brewing royalty and gave birth to Falstaff beer.
Sitting directly on top of that subterranean maze was their 33-room Victorian fortress: hand-carved African mahogany, ceiling frescoes, walk-in bank vaults, and private tunnels leading 30 feet underground to a…
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