Published April 20, 2021 at 4:40 PM CDT Listen • 17:00 Field House Museum The Field House Museum s Momentous Milestones exhibit highlights the history of the oldest privately-owned residential home in St. Louis.
The house that eventually became the Field House Museum is celebrating a milestone this week: 175 years since its construction in 1845. The site on 634 South Broadway, St. Louis was the home of two notable St. Louis figures: Roswell Field and his son Eugene Field.
Roswell Field moved his family into the unit to get away from what was then considered the city prompted by his first child’s death during the cholera epidemic and his original home nearly burning down in the St. Louis Fire of 1849.