Bellefontaine Cemetery

Built in 1849. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.

From the record

“Bellefontaine Cemetery and Arboretum is a nonprofit, non-sectarian cemetery and arboretum in St. 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.”
Wikipedia article Bellefontaine Cemetery, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 663 National Register listings published here for St. Louis County · listed in 2014 · category: District · built in 1849.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. 4947 W. Florissant Ave., St. Louis (Independent City), 63147
When was it listed? July 2014
Category. district
When was it built? 1849
National Register reference number. 14000378 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

1 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Bellefontaine Cemetery in 2006, burning under an acre in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
27 February 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Every fire recorded in St. Louis County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 39 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 39 workings within 5 miles of Bellefontaine Cemetery: 37 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Fire Clay (Refractory), Thorium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Bambrick-Bates Constr. Co. Quarry 1	Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Hydraulic Press Brick Co Mine No 3	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Past Producer
Madison Plant	Thorium	Producer
Prospect Hill Cement Plant	Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay	Producer
Bambrick-Bates Const. Co Quarry 4	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Bambrick-Bates Constr. Co Quarry 2	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Bambrick-Bates Constr. Co. Quarry 3	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Bowdirns Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Carl's Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Carlins Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in St. Louis County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
Wainwright Tomb	0.4 miles	1970
Mark Twain Elementary School	0.7 miles	2011
Holly Place Historic District	0.8 miles	2007
Harrison School	1.2 miles	2007
Otto Kulage House	1.3 miles	2002
Our Lady of Perpetual Help Parish Hall, School, Convent, and Rectory	1.4 miles	2009

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 14000378 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
St. Louis County	All 663 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.