a treasure-trove of 19th century funerary art, with fainting maidens, huge angels, and the like, plus the Wainwright tomb, designed by Louis Sullivan

Bellefontaine and the neighboring cemetery, Calvary, are phenomenal places to visit. I am a teacher, and have been taking my gifted middle school students there annually for about a decade. The grounds are beautiful and impeccably maintained. There is a white line on part of the road that directs you along a driving tour of gravesites - you can pick... More

My experience was radically different than the other reviewer's. When my fiance and I went to Bellefontaine, we had a wonderful afternoon wandering through cemetery, looking at the Anheuser and Busch mausoleums and the monuments to other famous St. Louisans, past and present. The monuments themselves are noteworthy, not just the people buried under/within them. Beautiful Celtic monuments, and unusual... More

We visited the Bellefontaine Cemetery in the summer of '05. The directions in the vacation book we had were poor and we got lost in a questionable part of town. We came upon the cemetery's back side, and were leary of the gated entry into the cemetery. The signs on the gate warned that the gates would be closed and... More