Vernon S. Beck Memorial Park
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| Type | Public | |
| Location | 4 Boland Farm Rd, Eureka, MO 63025 | |
| Nearest city | High Ridge, Missouri | |
| Coordinates | 38°30′04″N 90°35′24″W / 38.501°N 90.590°WCoordinates: 38°30′04″N 90°35′24″W / 38.501°N 90.590°W ⧼validator-fatal-error⧽ | |
| Area | 125 acres (0.51 km2) | |
| Created | 1997 | |
| Website | https://www.jeffcomo.org/582/Parks-and-Recreation | |
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Vernon S. Beck Memorial Park is a 125-acre undeveloped public park located in Eureka, Missouri, and is maintained by Jefferson County Parks[1]. It houses dozens of historic ruins from the third and final location for the Famous-Barr Outing Farm and features a walking trail made from a former resort road. The park is down the street from the Route 66 State Park Visitor Center and Crescent, Missouri and is open from dawn to dusk annually. Vehicles aren’t allowed on the trail, only walkers and pets but they need to be on a leash no longer than 6 feet. The trail can be accessed through the park's gravel parking lot. To get to the park from Eureka, take Interstate 44 to Exit 266 where you’ll make a right onto the North Outer Road overpass. Take that road down to the intersection of North Outer Road and Lewis Road where you’ll turn left onto Lewis. Follow Lewis under the highway, over the Beckwoods Drive Bridge[2], along South Lewis Road, and past the Boland Family Farm where you’ll find the park's sign at the intersection of Boland Farm Road and South Lewis Road.
Famous-Barr Outing Farm[edit]
The resort was the brainchild of Laura M. Kinkead, a legal stenographer and the founder of the May Department Store Company’s May Benevolent Welfare Association. Serving as the welfare association's first secretary from 1906 to 1910, her duties were to represent the employees of the May Company—especially the women—in their relation with company management and fight for employee benefits. Her biggest achievement as the welfare association’s secretary was founding a co-operative “health resort” funded by the May Company and its welfare association in 1906 with the goal of rejuvenating tired company employees.
After a little bit of searching, in the Spring of 1906, the May Company rented a 500 acre farm owned by Jesse and Mary Joplin at 440 Eagle Pointe Landing Drive in Eureka as the location for the resort. At the time, the Joplin’s farm featured a 75 year old stone farmhouse, the ruins of a stone barn that had burned down a few years before, and a couple stone outbuildings. It was surrounded by the business district of Eureka, numerous other farms, and a large stone schoolhouse called the Augustine School at 317 Augustine Road that was said to have looked like “a fortress”. In the weeks leading up to the grand opening, the farm was hurriedly prepared for the 20 expected guests and a partition was removed in the farmhouse between the two largest rooms on the first floor and an oak floor was laid over the original stone floor for dancing to “a queer little piano with several keys missing”. This large area became the male sleeping area at night with the five upstairs bedrooms being set aside for the ladies.
June 30, 1906[edit]
The resort formally opens but with a spirit crushing attendance. The fancy three-seated spring buggy and hay wagon that had been sent to Eureka’s train station at 8 South Central Avenue only came back with two people. After that disappointing opening day, 10 guests came the following weekend. By the Fourth of July a few days later, the resort was packed with a crowd of 56! More and more people came thereafter and the resort’s first summer passed rather quickly thanks to the steadily increasing attendance. Hay rides, leisurely strolls around the resort, parties, and other “country amusements” served as entertainment for the resort’s guests. Mrs. Ella S. Isgrig, Ms. Kinkead’s assistant and the hostess of the resort during that summer, once said she loved seeing the big smiles on the faces of female employees.
1907–8[edit]
Source[3]
The success of the resort influenced the May Company to move it to a larger plot of land somewhere in nearby Crescent, Missouri. At this second resort, Mrs. Isgrig resumed her role as the hostess and Ms. Kinkead was secretary. From 1907 to 1908, the resort grew very popular and by the Summer of 1908, it was overflowing with guests. Some people would even sleep in Eureka's train station!
Summer of 1909[edit]
After the second resort's rapid success and subsequent steady growth in membership, Sidney M. Shoenberg and Morton J. May of the Shoenberg Mercantile Co. bought a 125 (some sources say it was either 150 or 149) acre plot of land, at 4 Boland Farm Road in Eureka for $35,000. Located about 300 feet up on a hill, it was said to be “one of the most picturesque and wildest spots on the Meramec River”.
The entire 18-week outing season that year was spent improving the property: roads were built, underbrush was cleared, and a special train station for the resort was built at (38.505580, -90.612105) in the Votaw Farm along Flat Creek off Blakey Road. Also built were a frame clubhouse (also called the main building), a boathouse for boat storage, four tennis courts, a softball field, four cottages, an outdoor dining room, an open-air dancing pavilion, horse arena, poultry yards, a barn for horse rides, and a couple other buildings.
The two-story clubhouse, built at a cost of $50,000, featured 26 bedrooms including 2 screened-in rooms, a 153 foot (10,000 square foot) screened porch, two screened-in dining rooms that had a capacity between 150 and 600 people, a “model” screened-in kitchen, and a 58x24 foot living room. The clubhouse’s kitchen was supplied by a variety of sources, including a local farm, the resort’s poultry yards and two truck gardens, and Allenton, Missouri’s meat market. Women’s dormitories were on the second story, men’s dormitories were in a separate wing on the ground floor, and verandas on the roof offered a breathtaking view of the Meramec valley below. The building also boasted several divans, telephone lines to St. Louis and the surrounding area, indoor bathrooms and showers, hot and cold water, gas lines in every room, electric lights, card tables, easy chairs, player pianos, a stocked bookcase, and even a ventilation system! The entire building could hold between 200 and 600 people. Water to the resort’s buildings came from a pumping station located on the outskirts of the grounds. The station pumped water from the Meramec into a filtered 15,000 gallon tank as well as an attached 49,000 gallon reservoir. This is the last standing building in the park though the structure has increasingly collapsed since 2004.
June 5, 1910[edit]
The third resort officially opens as the Famous & Barr Outing Farm with an attendance between 250 and 400 guests. Immediately after this grand opening, the resort, now worth $55,000, was donated to the May Benevolent Welfare Association by the May Company. It remained an asset of the company until it closed years later. The original hostess of the “Famous on the Meramec”, as the third resort was sometimes called, was May H. Breeding. Mrs. J. G. Askins later filled her role and made people feel at home in the clubhouse with her motherly presence. To get to “The Farm” from St. Louis, one would have to take a 26 mile long train ride on the Frisco railroad tracks to the resort’s train station in Eureka. From there you would be escorted to a wagon and driven two miles to the resort. The resort was open every weekend from June to September annually for May Company and Famous-Barr Company employees and their families who were members of the welfare association. Higher-ups in the companies also were allowed into the resort. For example, a well known guest was the president of the welfare association and the superintendent of the Fa. mous-Barr Company Fred Z. Salomon who, starting in 1912 and continuing until the resort’s closing, would drive down to the resort almost every weekend in his “machine” to spend some time with his employees. He enjoyed taking a personal interest in every resort guest and often got involved in the resort’s horse shows.
In order for an employee to be a member of the welfare association and therefore gain access to the resort, they had to pay dues ranging from ten cents to a dollar a month. The exact amount of the due was determined by the employee’s pay grade. Besides the dues, the resort itself had a weekly fee between two and seven dollars a week, also determined by the employee’s pay grade. This fee covered free medical attention as well as the other amenities of the resort. This fee was waved entirely for lower-paid employees. So as to not draw attention to those that couldn’t pay, no one, not even the resort’s hostess, knew which guests paid and which ones didn’t. Only the welfare association’s secretary and those that couldn’t pay were in on the secret.
December 1911[edit]
Source[8]
May Company’s founder, David May, merges the Famous Clothing Store and the William Barr Dry Goods Co. to create the Famous and Barr Company. Soon after, the May Benevolent Welfare Association changed its name to the Famous Welfare Association and took ownership of the resort and the resort’s train station. Because this name change took place only a year after the resort’s train station was built, the station is known to locals and history books as the Famous-Barr Station (also went by as the Famous Station or the Famous-on-the-Frisco).
Also during this year, a bridge called the Beckwoods Drive Bridge[2] was built by the Stupp Brothers Bridge and Iron Co. of St. Louis over Antire Creek at 16 South Lewis Road. This pin-connected, four-panel, Class B, Pratt pony truss bridge is the one you travel over to get to the park. Be careful driving over the bridge because its deck has a very low weight limit. It’s safe for smaller cars but semi-trucks and dump trucks are too heavy for it to handle. Trucks have fallen through the bridge’s deck before which has made park maintenance rather difficult as gravel for any trail upkeep can only be brought there by truck.
1912[edit]
Sources[6][3] After a noticeable increase in membership to the welfare association, a couple improvements were made to the resort. One of which was the construction of a barracks-style bungalow called The Hay for the boys who stayed at the resort. It had eight rooms and could hold 40 people. Other improvements included a new free bathing suit rental service.
1913–1928[edit]
By this point, the resort boasted 50 buildings, scattered all around the property. Directly across from the clubhouse/main building were the boathouse, a barn, and a horse arena. Nearby was an open-air dancing pavilion, a small church called Solomon's Temple, a billiard hall, four tennis courts, two truck gardens of about five acres each that supplied fresh vegetables during the summer, a softball field, a pumping station, swing-sets, poultry yards with artificially heated brooder houses that contained incubators, and gardens irrigated with water piped from a large water tower (not the pumping station) at the top of the hill. To the North were numerous bungalows ranging from simple one-room cabins to “The Hay”, servants bungalows, and the keeper’s cottage which had five rooms. On the foot of the hill were smaller boathouses, bathhouses, a stationary dock, a floating raft, a sand swimming beach with steps leading to the river, and a chute for swimmers. Also, motor boats, row boats, and canoes were moored along the riverbank for guests to use.
Other sources of entertainment were petting the resort’s cows, pigs, and horses; listening to the distant tinkle of the bells strapped around the herd of Angora goats that grazed on the hillside; rides on the large tally-hos (four horse wagons) and park wagons; pony and donkey rides; dancing; playing croquet; adventures in nearby Rankin’s Cave; and the occasional hay rides. In 1913, “moving pictures” of the resort were shown in Pathe’s Weekly at the St. Charles Theatre (6th and St. Charles Streets in St. Charles, Missouri) as well as other theaters throughout Missouri. These movies as well as plays put on by Famous-Barr employees showcased the resort’s amenities. Concerts put on by the company’s band in downtown Eureka in 1916 also showcased the resort.
1929–1940[edit]
Country clubs or resorts for employees of large corporations became popular in the late 1890s and remained popular through the 1920’s. Besides Famous-Barr, other St. Louis companies such as Ralston Purina, Laclede Gas, Stix, Baer and Fuller, and Union Electric Company (now Ameren) all had clubs along the Meramec River. During the 1930’s however, the popularity of the resorts began to decline. David Browman, a Washington University anthropologist who has studied the era, said tighter corporate finances following the stock market crash of 1929 may have led to the decline. Activity at the “Famous on the Meramec” decreased substantially during the 1930’s, he said. On May 30, 1940, a softball field was dedicated on the resort’s grounds South of the clubhouse/main building and cottages. This was either one of the last or the last addition ever made to the resort while it was open.
January 1942[edit]
Source[6]
The Famous-Barr Outing Club, as it had become known, closes around this time due to complications related to World War II. It never reopened for the Summer of 1942.
April 1952[edit]
Source[12]
The resort property was put up for sale by the Metropolitan St. Louis Company.
Beck's & Medows'[edit]
1952[edit]
Source[13]
Vernon S. Beck, then president of Big Game Hunters of America, Inc., and his wife Lola Mae Beck buy the resort property from the May Company. They had many of the old resort buildings demolished as they were crumbling and renovated the clubhouse/main building into a summer home. They also added a rifle range, most likely where the tennis courts used to be, among other improvements such as keeping the cottages open for rental. While owned by Beck, the property went under several names such as Beckwoods, Beckvue, Beck-Vue, and Vernon S. Beck’s estate. The Beck’s mainly used the property to host parties, events, and dinners for their friends and family.
August 16, 1965[edit]
Source[14]
Vernon Beck committted suicide by shooting himself in the bedroom above the ballroom in the main building/clubhouse after learning he had cancer. His death traumatized his wife Lola until the day she died. Soon after, Beck's wife Lola, or Becky as he called her, had her best friend and caretaker Nova Medows move in to the building with her.
Nova’s granddaughter Rhoda [Hafley] Rickey's account of the resort property as she remembers it: “I remember everything down to the mulberry bushes at the top of the driveway. The Becks were wonderful people and really aren’t mentioned much. They entertained so many interesting people from all over the world at the old resort property during the 50’s & 60’s which I always thought was pretty interesting. My grandma Nova Medows was Lola Beck’s best friend & caretaker. They lived together there for about three to four years. She died in my grandmother’s arms in the main bedroom right behind the main fireplace [Lola died on January 10, 1982 at the age of 86]. Nova lived there along with my uncle Tracey Medows Sr. (groundskeeper), my uncle Mike Medows (also a groundskeeper), my aunt Patti Spurgeon, my cousin Teddy Spurgeon, my mom LeiLanni “Skip” Hafley, myself, my half-sister Debbie Hughes, and my half-brother John Hughes. Frequented guests that stayed often were my uncle Don Medows, my uncle Joe Medows, and my aunt Annie Medows. John, Debbie, and I all had actual bedrooms there even though it was technically not our house! We usually lived with our mom in Labadie, Missouri but she worked two jobs so I stayed with my grandmother most of the time with no trips back home. She took care of us while my mom worked. My mom had her own room there as well but she only came to grandma’s after her second shift and went back home twice a week. We stayed there continuously because it was much easier on my mom as all of our belongings were there already including the dogs. John spent three full summers there while I spent two including the entire summers of 1982 and 1983. Debbie only spent the summer of 1982 there with us because she could drive and had a job. I also lived there from September to December 1982 then moved back in March 1983 and stayed through September 1983. The reason I stayed there during the school year on such long stretches is I had some major surgeries as a kid and my grandmother took care of me so my mom could work. Don’t misinterpret my mom’s actions! She was a single mom, not an absent parent! She was the best. She made sure my grandma was at home in the mornings before she left for work. Sadly, the main building burned to the ground with all of our possessions in February 1984. We are pretty sure the fire started from faulty wiring in the ceiling right above the kitchen. My grandmother only got out with her little dog and severe burns. I was devastated! A family friend rushed up to Coleman Elementary in Villa Ridge, Missouri and got me out of school early. I knew my grandma was hurt and to see all the burnt ruins of the building was traumatizing. There was absolutely no second story left at all. Storage on top of the foundation and a little section of game room and ballroom walls were all that were left standing. I lost many things. Mostly clothes and toys. Some things that really stood out that were gone and I was really sad about this was a Michael Jackson button, some baby doll furniture that my Granny painted for me, and my big present for Christmas that year (just a couple of months prior) which was a Cabbage Patch doll. I also had a hula hoop hanging on my headboard and a baton that I got from the circus when it came to St. Louis the summer before. Oh and my strawberry shortcake bedding! I was so proud of that! All gone! It was so sad really. I can’t imagine how my grandmother and older family members felt. So many of our photos and keepsakes were gone. Though pretty much everything was lost in the fire, I do have some things from the house that were given to family members as gifts. Also, most of the Becks stuff was gone by the time of the fire. You see after Lola died, extended family members of the Becks came to the house for an estate sale of the their possessions. Some of the neighbors like the Meyers (not sure of spelling) and close friends like John and Betty Munkers also came by. I’m not sure of the company who was in charge of the estate sale. So here’s how the main building (our house) was set up. By my time, it had been converted into a house from a clubhouse although it still had men’s and women’s restrooms upstairs. It was a grand place! There were four fireplaces and two wooden stoves that were in the house. To the immediate left of the front door was the main bedroom, with the main fireplace, living room, and garage directly across from it in a sort of wing shape. To the immediate right of the front door was Vernon’s big game room that was filled with the most exotic animal hides, heads, etc. and a large room called the ballroom where we used to host concerts and Vernon would shoot guns and bows which would understandably make his wife Lola very mad. The ballroom was the largest room facing the driveway which came up the hill along side the house. Next to Vernon’s game room was the staircase to the upstairs level. Vernon converted the bannisters into elephant tusks from an elephant he had shot on a hunting trip which was very interesting to look at. The kitchen was closely lined up with the front door, maybe three feet more to the right. If you went out of the kitchen door you’d go down about three to five steps to cross the ‘moat’ as what we called it. On the front of the building was a long screened in porch/sunroom with red bar stools. Upstairs you had a key closet, 26 bedrooms, and the bathrooms that I had mentioned earlier. The bedroom above the ballroom was where Vernon shot himself in 1965. After Lola discovered his body, she wouldn’t let anyone go in there, even keeping the shades drawn. When my family bought the property, my uncles moved these department store mannequins that were found in some of the rooms into that bedroom. They never threw anything away. Seriously! I know my uncles used to play jokes on each other with those old mannequins. They would hide them in the bathroom stalls upstairs so that when someone would open the door, they would get the daylights scared out of them. This wasn’t done to visitors, just on each other. Whenever I walked by that room as a kid, I felt weird but I was just a kid though. Who knows if that area is haunted or not! In the bottom of the building was the basement which had a cellar and two separate entrances. It was mainly used as storage. For example, under the main staircase, the Becks had these old white lawn chairs from the resort days tucked away. These stairs were the “short cellar” as we called it. You can still see the chairs there! The house had two driveways: one in the back and one in the front. The back one was used as a parking lot while the one in the front was off limits to cars as it was simply nothing but a brick walkway. We also had a gazebo in the back that was at the end of a trail. It was about 100 feet from the house. It was still standing when the house burned down but it was pretty damaged. I’m sure that it has fallen or has been demolished since then. People would come ‘explore’ our house from off of the river or the highway as you used to be able to see part of the house from 44. It happened so often. After we drained the swimming pool in 1982 due to a major leaking problem in the deep end, my siblings and I would play kickball and football in it! The boat house, which was located across from our house, was demolished around 1980. We didn’t really do anything with the cottages after the 1970’s because they weren’t really of interest to us as we didn’t need to use them.”
January 1975[edit]
Source[15]
The Commercial Industrial Division of the Dolan Company put the Beck property up for sale.
November 1975[edit]
Sources'[16]
St. Louis County, the nearby towns of Kirkwood and Fenton, and the Missouri Department of Resources make a $150,000 request for the acquisition of the Beck property as part of the Lower Meramec Project, a plan created by the State of Missouri to open up public parks along the Meramec River in Missouri.
July 1982[edit]
The Beck property is put up for sale by Shaffers Tri-County Real Estate of Pacific, Missouri as the “old Famous-Barr retreat” with a price tag of $400,000.[17]
February 1984[edit]
Source[14]
A devastating fire burnt the clubhouse/main building to the ground and many other buildings were gutted. Marilyn Leistner, then a resident of the nearby town of Times Beach, remembered the Eureka Fire Department trucks struggling to cross the Beckwoods Drive Bridge[2] which significantly slowed down the fire fighting process. Mrs. Rickey later elaborated on Mrs. Leistner’s account, saying “Only a couple of small trucks were able to get across the bridge to the fire. NONE of the big tanker trucks could cross that old bridge. It simply wouldn’t hold the weight. That’s why (the main building) literally burnt to the ground.”
October 1984[edit]
Ideas for the Beck property start to arise, most of which from Jefferson County officials who had been eyeing the property since the Spring of 1983. Some believed it could be turned into a scenic regional park and recreation center for Jefferson County while others saw nothing but a collection of crumbling buildings ravaged by vandals.
In its prime, the property had a large lodge with a dining, recreation and guest rooms, 30 to 40 two-story guest cottages, a caretaker’s cottage, a full-size swimming pool, tennis courts, and even a bowling alley. But by this point, the cottages were crumbling, the swimming pool was buckling, the old water system was shot, no one knew where the bowling alley was, and trees and weeds were sprouting through the tennis court.
Even with the ruins, the property was relatively enticing to Jefferson County as they only had eight parks and were losing a lot of money to St. Louis County who not only had way more parks but also had several recreation areas and a couple YMCA’s.
July 1985[edit]
Sources[20]
Jefferson County gets approval for a $70,000 federal grant to buy the Beck property with. But when county officials learned that they would have to spend $80,000 to renovate the aging Beckwoods Drive Bridge[2]—a bridge that provided the only access to the property and was inside St. Louis County—they backed off. Mike Ginger, Jefferson County’s park director, said Missouri state officials who helped get the grant didn’t want to give the money back, so they convinced St. Louis County to take over the property. Over the next few years, St. Louis County did little to the property except demolish the remaining buildings and protect it from private developers.
September 1996[edit]
Source[21]
Jefferson County officials buy the property from St. Louis County for $20,000. After some time of planning, the county decided to turn the property into the park. Other ideas that were pitched were a wildlife refuge, hunting ground, and a place for hay rides.
1997[edit]
Source[20]
The park formally opened with hardly any publicity.
References[edit]
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- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 "The St. Louis Star and Times (St. Louis, Missouri), March 30, 1913, Page 36". The St. Louis Star and Times. March 30, 1913. p. 36.
- ↑ "St. Louis Post-Dispatch (St. Louis, Missouri), September 2, 1906, Page 7". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. September 2, 1906. p. 7.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "The St. Louis Star and Times (St. Louis, Missouri), June 6, 1910, Page 2". The St. Louis Star and Times. June 6, 1910. p. 2.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 Everding, Gerry. "Undated Article". St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
- ↑ "The St. Louis Star and Times (St. Louis, Missouri), June 16, 1912, Page 22". The St. Louis Star and Times. June 16, 1912. p. 22.
- ↑ "The St. Louis Star and Times (St. Louis, Missouri), December 26, 1911, Page 4". The St. Louis Star and Times. December 26, 1911. p. 4.
- ↑ "St. Louis Post-Dispatch (St. Louis, Missouri), August 6, 1916, Page 37". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. August 6, 1916. p. 37.
- ↑ "St. Louis Post-Dispatch (St. Louis, Missouri), August 24, 1913, Page 16". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. August 24, 1913. p. 16.
- ↑ "St. Louis Post-Dispatch (St. Louis, Missouri), May 31, 1940, Page 22". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. May 31, 1940. p. 22.
- ↑ "St. Louis Post-Dispatch (St. Louis, Missouri), April 27, 1952, Page 52". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. April 27, 1952. p. 52.
- ↑ "St. Louis Post-Dispatch (St. Louis, Missouri), July 20, 1952, Page 63". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. July 20, 1952. p. 63.
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 Rhoda Hafley Rickey
- ↑ "St. Louis Post-Dispatch (St. Louis, Missouri), January 12, 1975, Page 66". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. January 12, 1975. p. 66.
- ↑ "Springfield Leader and Press (Springfield, Missouri), November 7, 1975, Page 11". Springfield Leader and Press. November 7, 1975. p. 11.
- ↑ "St. Louis Post-Dispatch (St. Louis, Missouri), July 4, 1982, Page 45". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. July 4, 1982. p. 45.
- ↑ "St. Louis Post-Dispatch (St. Louis, Missouri), July 18, 1985, Pages 71 & 73". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. July 18, 1985. pp. Pages 71 & 73.
- ↑ "St. Louis Post-Dispatch (St. Louis, Missouri), October 15, 1984, Pages 75 & 76". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. October 15, 1984. pp. 75&76.
- ↑ 20.0 20.1 "St. Louis Post-Dispatch (St. Louis, Missouri), October 3, 1996, Pages 129 & 133". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. October 3, 1996. pp. 129&133.
- ↑ "St. Louis Post-Dispatch (St. Louis, Missouri), September 27, 1996, Page 13". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. September 27, 1996. p. 13.
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