Bellefontaine Cemetery

A very private St. Louis family commissioned a very public mausoleum to eventually house eight loved ones. Both the cemetery and the mausoleum architect are mum on the family’s identity, but clues abound.

Most people in St. Louis likely have never heard of Eliza Haycraft, one of the city's wealthiest citizens in the late 1800s. But a new musical could…

On a residential street in the Central West End neighborhood, a worker wearing a hard hat and a safety vest used a chainsaw to cut the branches off of an…

The cemetery is an odd place to be at night. But for scientists who study bats, it's an opportunity to observe wildlife in an urban habitat. Last week,…

Bellefontaine Cemetery is magnificent in all seasons. But this vast and celebrated necropolis on West Florissant Avenue in north St. Louis seems most…

And you thought cemeteries were for the dead. A nighttime census of leafy Bellefontaine in St. Louis reveals at least two species of bats. Parklike graveyards provide key habitat for urban wildlife.

Photo Flood Saint Louis describes themselves as a "a collective of photographers, living in the area, who occasionally invade parts of town to record it…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, June 2, 2011 - Bellefontaine Cemetery is a place of beauty and tranquility. It's not an obvious place…