Jefferson Barracks

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Jefferson Barracks Visitors Center

Jefferson Barracks Visitors Center is known as the historic Jefferson Barracks barn. It is where the Army once housed its horses and wagons and has been renovated and converted into a visitors center.
Jefferson Barracks was named in honor of President Thomas Jefferson, who had died on the Fourth of July of the year the post was established.

Cake artist - Paul LaFlam

One hundred-ninety down 60 to go.

Mississippi River Greenway - Trailhead in Jefferson Barracks Park

Great Rivers Greenway continues along the Mississippi into Jefferson Barracks County Park. Manual counts were conducted to track the use of this trail. According to the National Bicycle and Pedestrian Documentation it is estimated that this two mile section of trail is being used for more than 68,000 trips by walkers, runners, and cyclists.

The park is located on a scenic bluff overlooking the Mississippi River on the site of what once was a major U.S. Army installation. Established in 1826, it was the country’s first Infantry School of Practice and served as the primary training and gathering place for the Army of the West. Jefferson Barracks replaced Fort Belle Fontaine, the first U.S. Army installation west of the Mississippi River, which suffered from repeated flooding because of its location on the Missouri River.

Jefferson Barracks Park offers a mix of history, recreational facilities and natural features. Stone buildings from the post now serve as museums for permanent displays, special exhibits, as well as tours, classes and seminars.

Cake artist - Katherine Nelson

I could not do a better job describing this cake than the artist that made it. Katherine Nelslon gives us her insights about the cake at the Mississippi River Greenway. Thank you for telling us about the Raven cake and good luck with your work on the gothic cathedral, St John the Devine in NYC.

Artist comment - Rich

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Cathedral Basilica/Busch Stadium

Breakfast at Tiffany's, make mine cake.

Sometimes things are related in ways you would not expect.

The Cathedral Basilica is a beautiful and spiritual place. It is a building that would seem to be more at home in Constantinople being the seat of the Byzantine empire than on Lindell Boulevard.

Rich marbles, stained glass, and opulent mosaics give this building an other worldliness that commands respect and reverence. The Cathedral is without a doubt a work of art.


Now of course many people in St Louis feel this way about Busch Stadium. Busch Stadium is a high holy place to the sacred right of St Louis baseball and heavenly abode of the Cardinals.

The Demi gods that ply their miracles on these Elysian fields often play host to mere mortals and add to their legend on a nightly basis. The divine raiment of these celestial beings is known as the “birds on the bat” and should never be the bird and squirrel on the bat. (The only thing that should go along with a squirrel is a “moose and squirrel”). To many in St Louis the emerald meadow of Busch also commands respect and if not reverence at least an awe inspired by the wizards that work their magic there.

This would seem like a logical connection between the two places but I saw something different this night.

 It was the logo of another storied franchise challenging the home town nine, the either despised or beloved New York Yankees. The interlocked N Y of the Yankees was designed by Tiffany's as were the mosaic tiles and stained glass of the Cathedral Basilica.

Guest blogger - Rich

Cake artist
Cathedral Basilica - Vince Sciaroni
Busch Stadium - Katherine Nelson


Seventy- nine and Eighty down 170 to go.