An interesting relic of St. Louis County’s attempt to build a poor farm in the southwest corner of St. Louis County lies buried inside the innards of a hotel built in 1980. It is just north of the small hamlet of Allenton.
Two stone barns, built as the next poor farm, are now conference center rooms built in the 1870s, but were later part of Deep Springs Farm owned by Charles W. Crowley after the County sold off the land.
Here and there, the stone pops out along corridors in the hotel.
It’s an interesting reuse of a historic building.
