Photograph by Historic American Buildings Survey, creator; Theodore LaVack, Photographer, Public domain. Via
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St. Stanislaus Seminary
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.
From the record
“Stanislaus Seminary is a former Society of Jesus (Jesuits) seminary that was founded in 1823 on the outskirts of Florissant, Missouri within the current municipal limits of Hazelwood, Missouri. It was the longest continuously operated Jesuit novitiate in the United States.”
Wikipedia article St. Stanislaus Seminary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 663 National Register listings published here for St. Louis County · listed in 1972 · category: District.
National Register reference number.72001491- 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
3 since 2006
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 3 fires within 5 miles of St. Stanislaus Seminary
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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
2
Misuse of fire by a minor
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
85 workings within 5 miles of St. Stanislaus Seminary: 79 past producers, 5 producers, 1 plant.
6 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Florissant, the town this property stands in, in 48 storm reports between 1993 and 2023: 27 hail, 20 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning.
The reports record 1 death. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office
filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date
opens the federal record of that event.
Storm spotters reported hail up to 1.25 inch in diameter near Creve Coeur Lake at 2128 CST. A roof was damaged on a restaurant on north Highway 67 in Florissant shortly after that. Emergency Management officials reported 1.00-inch-diameter hail up a foot deep along buildings in Bridgeton.
A wide swath of large hail between an inch and 1.25 inches in diameter fell along the I-270 corridor in northern portions of St. Louis County. Large hail was reported in Florrisant, Black Jack and Spanish Lake.
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.
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.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.
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