Eliza Haycraft’s Six Houses on Green Street
Eliza Haycraft’s 1867 will lists six houses and lots on the north side of Green Street between Seventh and Eighth Streets. The cluster shows that the woman remembered primarily as St. Louis’s most notorious madam had also assembled a substantial downtown real-estate portfolio.
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Visiting Information
The southern part of the America's Center now covers the original locations.
View the historic block from public streets. The original houses do not survive; this is a historic site rather than an extant Haycraft building.
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Sources
Eliza Haycraft will, St. Louis City Will Book J, pp. 147–148 (1867). The will identifies six houses and lots on the north side of Green Street between Seventh and Eighth Streets and records acquisition from Benjamin Thomas by deed dated April 12, 1862.
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