Anheuser-Busch Brewery

Anheuser-Busch Brewery is a brewery complex in St. Louis, Missouri.[4]

Anheuser-Busch Brewery
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. National Historic Landmark District
St. Louis Landmark
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Location	721 Pestalozzi St. Louis, Missouri
Coordinates	38°35′51″N 90°12′44″W
Area	142 acres (57 ha)[1]
Built	1875
Architectural style	Romanesque
NRHP reference No.	66000945
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	November 13, 1966[2]
Designated NHLD	November 13, 1966[3]

The brewery, opened in 1852 by German immigrant Adolphus Busch, is designated as a National Historic Landmark District. The Anheuser-Busch Brewery public tours offer hundreds of tourists the chance to experience culture native to St. Louis daily.[5] The paid tour takes visitors through the complex, and those of the legal age can drink an included glass of an Anheuser-Busch product in the Hospitality Room after the tour. Tourists can see beer being made and packaged in a working part of the brewery.

The old Lyon Schoolhouse Museum is an iconic site to visit at the Anheuser-Busch Brewery. As one of the oldest school buildings in St Louis it served as the head offices of the brewery after 1907.[6] The museum is loaded with rare mementos gathered from the founding of the company to current day. Also, the museum holds pictures of the brewery and its expansion over the years. Some of the tours visit this historic museum and can sample some of the many Budwieser products produced.

The company keeps a rotation of its famous Budweiser Clydesdales at its headquarters; the historic draft horses were originally used to pull wagons carrying beer in the 19th-century days of the company. Visitors to the brewery can observe the Clydesdales in their exercise field and see their places in the carriage house.

Some of the herd is kept at the company farm in St. Louis County. Known as Grant's Farm (having been owned by former President Ulysses S. Grant at one time), this complex is home to a menagerie of animals such as elephants, tortoises, and a variety of exotic hooved mammals. Since 2008, approximately half of the Budweiser Clydesdales are kept at the Warm Springs Ranch near Booneville, Missouri.

The brewery was designated a U.S. National Historic Landmark in 1966, recognizing the company's importance in the history of beer brewing and distribution in the United States.[1][3] The landmarked area includes 189 structures spread over 142 acres (57 ha), including many red brick Romanesque ones "with square crenelated towers and elaborate details."[1] The Brew House, built in 1891-1892, is particularly notable for its "multi-storied hop chandeliers, intricate iron-work, and utilization of natural light".[1]