Penrose is a neighborhood of St. Louis, Missouri. The neighborhood is located on the north side of the city just south of Interstate 70 and west of O’Fallon Park. It is bounded by Florissant Avenue and I-70 on the North, Natural Bridge on the South, North Newstead and Pope Avenue on the East, and Kingshighway Boulevard on the West.
Penrose's neighborhood identity was a long forming. In the early 19th century, the area was characterized more by la...
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Penrose is a neighborhood of St. Louis, Missouri. The neighborhood is located on the north side of the city just south of Interstate 70 and west of O’Fallon Park. It is bounded by Florissant Avenue and I-70 on the North, Natural Bridge on the South, North Newstead and Pope Avenue on the East, and Kingshighway Boulevard on the West.
Penrose's neighborhood identity was a long forming. In the early 19th century, the area was characterized more by land speculations than by actual settlement. It took its name from Clement B. Penrose, whom Thomas Jefferson appointed land commissioner in 1805. Penrose lived on a nearby estate and was of the region's prime land investors. Another early land owner was statesman Henry Clay, a shaper of the Missouri Compromise.
Penrose did not take on take on the contours of a community until the late 1880's, when farmers and dairymen, most of German heritage, moved their families into the area. By 1900, the community, though still rural, was sufficiently...
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