Photograph of Missouri Botanical Garden — Photograph by Yinan Chen, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Missouri Botanical Gardens

A National Historic Landmark. Built in 1859. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.

From the record

“The Missouri Botanical Garden is a botanical garden located at 4344 Shaw Boulevard in St. It is also known informally as Shaw's Garden for founder and philanthropist Henry Shaw.”
Wikipedia article Missouri Botanical Garden, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 663 National Register listings published here for St. Louis County · listed in 1971 · category: District · built in 1859 · a National Historic Landmark.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. 2345 Tower Grove Ave., St. Louis (Independent City), 63110
When was it listed? November 1971
Category. district
When was it built? 1859
National Register reference number. 71001065 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

2 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Missouri Botanical Gardens between 2006 and 2014, burning about 2 acres 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
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
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
22 March 2014	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
9 October 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Every fire recorded in St. Louis County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 107 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 107 workings within 5 miles of Missouri Botanical Gardens: 102 past producers, 3 producers, 1 plant, 1 prospect. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Fire Clay (Refractory), Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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	Recorded
Bambrick-Bates Constr. Co. Quarry 1	Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Delore Barite Mill	Barium-Barite	Producer
Hypothetical Lead Mine	Lead, Silver, Zinc, Cobalt, Copper, Nickel, Cadmium	Prospect	Underground
Krummel and Buchner Mine	Coal, Fire Clay (Refractory)	Past Producer
St Louis Perlite Plant	Perlite	Producer
Parker-Russell Fireclay Mine	Fire Clay (Refractory), Coal	Past Producer
Tole and Thorp Fireclay Mine	Fire Clay (Refractory), Coal	Past Producer
Superior Dredge and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Plant
Unknown - S&G	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown - S&G	Sand and Gravel, Construction	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
Shaw's Garden Historic District	0.2 miles	2012
Thurman Station	0.4 miles	2013
Shelter Twenty-Eight: Lily Pond Summer House	0.4 miles	1972
Shelter Sixteen: Old Carriage pavillion	0.5 miles	1972
Shelter Eighteen: Humboldt South pavilion	0.6 miles	1972
Reber Place Historic District	0.6 miles	2012

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 71001065 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.