Firmin Desloge, widow of the mining magnate Joseph LaBarge and Horace Bixby, famed steamboat pilots and three St. Jaccard, noted jeweler Charles Nagel, Secretary of Commerce and Labor in the Taft Administration Mrs. Among them were Montgomery Blair, appointed Postmaster General by Abraham Lincoln David Nicholson, prominent wine and grocery merchant Louis Brandeis, later U.S. Individuals of both local and national reputation built imposing residences here. Louis and its park became the most popular recreation spot in the city. During the prosperous post-Civil War years, Lafayette Square became one of the most fashionable neighborhoods in St. Louis had increased 900% over the previous 20 years. The city made few improvements in Lafayette Park in the 1840's and 1850's, but by 1860 the population of St. With a population of less than 16,000 and municipal development hardly past the present Fourteenth Street, the public's pessimism is easily understandable.
Colonel Thornton Grimsley, a member of the Board of Aldermen, enthusiastically supported retaining a portion of the Commons for the enjoyment of all the citizens of St. For some years the area was considered too remote for practical residential development and locally the park was known as "Grimsley's Folley". The name commemorates the popular hero of the American Revolution who visited St. The 30 acre park was platted in 1836, making it not only the oldest of city parks, but also the first park west of the Mississippi River. It remains the only land within the city never under private ownership. Louis Commons which was reserved for public use as pasture and farm land in the European tradition. Lafayette Park is the focal point of the Square, a last link to the little French settlement of 1764.
Louis in its most flamboyant years, the last quarter of the 19th century. Lafayette Square is a reminder of Victorian St.
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