The Lemp Mansion, one of St. Louis’s most storied and reputedly haunted landmarks, is officially up for sale. The 33-room Italianate Victorian at 3322 South 13th Street in Benton Park is listed for $1.8 million, with the neighboring Lemp Stables property listed separately for $1.5 million.
The listing was first reported by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, whose reporter Steph Kukuljan detailed the sale of the mansion and its adjoining stables property. According to that report, the asking prices include the turnkey restaurant and event-venue businesses currently operating on site, and both properties are set to remain open for scheduled events through December 20, 2026. Weddings, mystery dinners and other private bookings already on the calendar will be honored by current management through that date, the paper’s report notes.
The mansion was built in 1868 by baker and saloon keeper Jacob Feickert, according to Legends of America. His son-in-law, William J. Lemp Sr., bought the home in 1876 and expanded it into a 7,300-square-foot manor featuring African mahogany trim and hand-carved Italian marble mantels, the outlet reports. Lemp grew his family’s brewery into a beer-industry giant, per the Post-Dispatch’s account, and the mansion’s address changed over time from its original spot on 2nd Carondelet Avenue to today’s DeMenil Place, per Legends of America.
An Underground World Beneath the Mansion
During that expansion, workers excavated a tunnel from the mansion’s basement into natural limestone caves, connecting the home directly to the sprawling, 13-block Lemp Brewery complex, Legends of America reports. The caves once housed an underground auditorium, a bowling alley and even a swimming pool, and were originally used for lagering beer before mechanical refrigeration existed, according to the same account…