Vandeventer is a neighborhood of St. Louis, Missouri. The area is bounded by Martin Luther King Drive on the North, Delmar on the South, Vandeventer on the East, and Newstead on the West.
Originally called Vandeventer Place after the founder, Peter Lewis Vandeventer, who came to St. Louis in the 1860's and along with his brothers, William and Henry Barnum Vandeventer, bought large parcels of land in Missouri for development.
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Vandeventer is a neighborhood of St. Louis, Missouri. The area is bounded by Martin Luther King Drive on the North, Delmar on the South, Vandeventer on the East, and Newstead on the West.
Originally called Vandeventer Place after the founder, Peter Lewis Vandeventer, who came to St. Louis in the 1860's and along with his brothers, William and Henry Barnum Vandeventer, bought large parcels of land in Missouri for development.
Vandeventer Place was a gated, luxury complex with large mansions and a beautiful fountain as its centerpiece. The fountain and front gates survive in Forest Park.
Peter Lewis Vandeventer and Henry Barnum Vandeventer were Wall Street stock brokers with a firm located at 6 Wall St., New York City. They made their money from selling stocks and took the train west to St. Louis and invested it in land.
Peter Lewis Vandeventer died in 1879, during the development of Vandeventer Place. His Missouri estate was managed by several corrupt lawyers, who stole much of the...
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