All of these tours are full-day, five-to-five-and-a-half-hour tours that include an hour break for lunch. They may be divided into half-day tours for private groups.

French Colonial Saint Louis
This tour covers the broad geographic parameters of the Colonial Village of Saint Louis from Sugar Loaf Mound in the south to Mound Street in the north, from the Mississippi River in the east to beyond Grand Avenue in the west and St. Louis history from 1764 to 1804 when Lewis & Clark arrived to witness the transfer of power from Spain to the United States of America. It includes such sites as Sugar Loaf Mound, the Peoria Indian Village, Joseph Motard’s outbuilding on McKay Place, the Common Fields of Saint Louis and the Old Courthouse.

Civil War St. Louis
St. Louis was as hotly divided as any city in the United States in the years leading up to and during the Civil War. Yet it proved critical to the survival of the Union in the War Between the States. This tour tells the stories of that dramatic era and includes sites such as the Federal Arsenal of the West, the Chatillon-DeMenil Mansion, the Gratiot Street Prison, the Massacre at Lindell’s Grove, the Statue of Ulysses S. Grant in Washington Square, The Old Post Office and the Confederate Memorial in Forest Park.

The Great Cyclone of 1896
This tour retraces the deadly path taken by proportionately the 4th most destructive tornado in U.S. history from the highest point in the City of St. Louis (where it began) to the Eads Bridge (300 feet of which it demolished) before laying waste to East St. Louis, Illinois. The tour includes such areas as The Hill, Tower Grove Park, Compton Heights, Lafayette Square, Soulard and the St. Louis Riverfront.

Downtown Renaissance
From renovated warehouses and townhouses to landscaped city gardens downtown St. Louis has become a world model of Urban Renaissance. This tour includes numerous sites as well as a visit to a loft, the Campbell House Museum, the Old Post Office and a stroll through City Garden.

Haunting St. Louis
The perfect October tour, Haunting St. Louis is historically atmospheric any time of year including as it does such sites as Indian Cave, The Lemp Mansion, Lafayette Park, The Campbell House Museum, the Old Busch Stadium, St. Louis University’s Verhagen Hall, Bellefontaine Cemetery and Hortense Place in the Central West End.

Tastes of St. Louis
From beignets (New Orleans style doughnuts) to toasted ravioli, from grape leaf rolls to frozen custard St. Louis has it all. Let me know what kind of a sweet and/or salty tour you’d like because the choices are endless! Of course the distances between shops and restaurants are filled with stories.