Penrose
Penrose is a primarily residential neighborhood of St. Louis, Missouri. The neighborhood is located on the north side of the city just south of Interstate 70 and west of O’Fallon Park.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Neighborhood
- Description: human settlement in St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
- Also known as: “Penrose, St. Louis”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Shelley House and Bellefontaine Cemetery.
Shelley House
Museum
Photo: FrancisNancy, CC BY 3.0.
The Shelley House is a historic house at 4600 Labadie Avenue in St. Louis, Missouri. Built in 1906, this duplex was the focus of the 1948 United States Supreme Court case Shelley v.
Bellefontaine Cemetery
Cemetery
Photo: Viking55, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Bellefontaine Cemetery and Arboretum is a nonprofit, non-sectarian cemetery and arboretum in St. Louis, Missouri. Founded in 1849 as a rural cemetery, Bellefontaine has several architecturally significant monuments and mausoleums such as the Louis Sullivan-designed Wainwright Tomb, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
O’Fallon Park
Park
Photo: Paul Sableman, CC BY 2.0.
O'Fallon Park is a municipal park in St. Louis, Missouri, that opened in 1908. Under Alderman John Collins-Muhammad the park underwent a million dollar remodeling including renovations on the historic O'Fallon Park Boathouse.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Academy and Pine Lawn.
Academy
Neighborhood
Academy/Sherman Park is a neighborhood in North St. Louis, just outside Central West End. The official boundaries of the area are Dr. Martin Luther King Drive on the north, Delmar Boulevard on the south, North Kingshighway Boulevard on the east, and Union Boulevard on the west. Academy is situated 2 miles southwest of Penrose.
Pine Lawn
Village
Photo: Paul Sableman, CC BY 2.0.
Pine Lawn is a city in St. Louis County, Missouri, United States. The population was 3,275 at the 2010 census. Pine Lawn is situated 2 miles northwest of Penrose.
Baden
Neighborhood
Baden is a neighborhood of St. Louis, Missouri. Baden is situated 2 miles north of Penrose.
Penrose
- Category: locality
- Location: St. Louis, St. Louis Area, Missouri, Midwest, United States, North America
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Latitude
38.67826° or 38° 40′ 42″ northLongitude
-90.23956° or 90° 14′ 22″ westElevation
479 feet (146 metres)Open location code
86CFMQH6+85OpenStreetMap ID
node 6536271650OpenStreetMap feature
place=neighbourhood
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to French—“Penrose” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Penrose”
- French: “Penrose”
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