Baden, St. Louis — Area Guide & Where to Stay

What are the main landmarks in Baden?

Holy Cross Church, now Our Lady of the Holy Cross, and Ebenezer Lutheran Church both date from the mid-19th century. The Friedens U.C.C. Cemetery, a burial ground of 1859, lies at North Broadway and Jennings Station Road.

Baden's fire station was built in 1909. On Bittner Street the Kraft house is said to be more than a century old, and Chain of Rocks Park, taken over by the Water Division in 1893, has picnic grounds and views of the river.

What is the history of Baden?

The North Missouri Railroad, later the Wabash, came through in 1855, and the post office was known locally as the Baden Station. In 1876 the state legislature made Baden part of St. Louis. It then had 11 stores, three wagon shops, and four churches.

The St. Louis Car Company moved to a 52-acre site in 1898, and its shops burned for several days in October 1920, the area's greatest fire. Paulus Gast opened a brewery on Hornsby Avenue in 1899. The Baden Bank followed in 1909.

Where is Baden?

Baden's shops centre on Broadway and Halls Ferry Road. Single-family homes fill the newer streets on the hill and run west towards Riverview Boulevard and into Veronica Park, while flats line Bittner Street and Church Road. South of the Wabash tracks on North Broadway, the Calvary and Bellefontaine cemeteries abut the Baden Historic District.