Bevo Mill

A Dutch-inspired windmill built by a beer baron at the halfway point between brewery and estate.

Bevo Mill

Bevo Mill looks like a piece of Europe dropped onto Gravois Avenue. That was essentially the idea: August Busch Sr. created it as a beer garden and landmark tied to the Busch family's brewing world.

The Story

August Busch Sr. conceived Bevo Mill after traveling in Holland. Architects Klipstein and Rothman designed the building in a Tudor Revival style, creating a deliberately Old World landmark on the route between the Busch brewery in Soulard and the family's Grant's Farm estate.

The mill took its name from Bevo, a malt beverage produced by Anheuser-Busch. Its unusual architecture became so strongly associated with the surrounding area that the neighborhood itself is now known as Bevo Mill.