Since opening on February 6, 1943, the Campbell House Museum has served the greater St. Louis area as one of the region's premier historic property museums. Email us at ahahn@stlouis.missouri.org
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- Location:
- Saint Louis, MO, 63103
- Phone:
- (314) 421-0325
- Wed - Sat:
- 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
- Sun:
- 12:00 pm - 4:00 pm
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Sunday, June 14 at 2:00pm
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Happy Thanksgiving from Campbell House Museum! Read all about the Victorian Thanksgiving Day traditions. Mary seems to think the people in Philadelphia were stuffy on this holiday... "“We have Thanksgiving tomorrow – everybody must go to Church. They
are trying to make it a strictly religious festival, not a nice
me...rry-making time as in good New England.” How times have changed!
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November 24, 2009 at 7:14 pm · Filed under This Week in History, Uncategorized ·Tagged Mary Kyle Campbell, Philadelphia, Thanksgiving, Virginia Kyle Campbell
See MoreCampbell House Museum Find out what's going on in North Carolina this week! After marrying Robert, Virginia moved to St. Louis, so her mother Lucy wrote her on November 18, 1841 to update her on the latest Raleigh news. Along with the expected gossip, Lucy talks about signing the tetotal pledge at the Temperance Society State Convention. ... She also wants to know what Robert has decided to do with the 3 slaves she's giving them - a few months later she encourages Robert to free her slaves along with his!
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November 18, 2009 at 6:11 pm · Filed under This Week in History, Uncategorized ·Tagged Lucy Ann Kyle, Robert Campbell, Slavery, Temperance Society, Virginia Kyle Campbell
Campbell House Museum Robert went to visit his brother Hugh in Philadelphia in 1836 after staying with his friend William Sublette at Sublette's farm Sulphur Springs. Robert arrived so sick his brother and sister-in-law didn't even know he was in town! Find out how Hugh says he's doing. Also, get the info on Sublette's brother, Milton's ...new CORK leg (yes actual leg)!
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November 11, 2009 at 6:02 pm · Filed under This Week in History, Uncategorized ·Tagged Hugh Campbell (brother), left leg amputation, medicine, Milton Sublette, Philadelphia, Robert Campbell, St. Louis, William Sublette
Campbell House Museum Find out where Robert, Virginia and their sons are this week in 1867! A great letter for anyone who has been or is going to Europe - it's fun to compare the sites that Robert mentions in the letter to his brother Andrew to anywhere you went!
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Read all about the Campbell’s 1867 grand tour of Europe, including their trip to the Universal Exposition in Paris!
Campbell House Museum For all fans of The Campbell Quest - read what Patrick MacCulloch's great-grandfather wrote to his uncle by marriage, Robert Campbell, in 1876! He writes from Ballyarton - the house whose picture on a postcard started it all!
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A great letter for any fans of The Campbell Quest! Hugh MacCulloch is married to Robert’s niece, Margaret Campbell MacCulloch. The two live in Ballyarton House, which still stands in Northern Ireland ...
Campbell House Museum Ever wonder what teenagers were like in history? Find out in this 1841 letter from 18 year old "wild child" Bessie Campbell to her Aunt Virginia! Bessie talks about the sudden news of her 15 year old sister's marriage: "I assure you dear Virginia I cannot and will not believe it until I shall see itverified in my fath...er's own writing I have always considered both my next sisters mere children and I was perfectly thunderstruck when Ireceived such very unexpected intelligence." Check it out on our blog!
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Bessie Campbell is Robert’s niece, the eldest child of his brother Andrew and the only daughter not to have children . Born in 1823, she was sent to live with her Uncle Hugh in America. Officially, ...
See MoreCampbell House Museum Robert Campbell professes his undying love for Virginia Jane Kyle - a perfect letter for any incurable romantics out there! "I will constantly enjoying the smiles of her whom I have ever loved from our first meeting . . . Everyday appears to me a month when separated from you . . . I have in you a noble minded and ki...nd hearted advocate." Check it out on the blog!
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Saint Louis October 8th 1838My Own Dearest VirginiaNearly two weeks ago I wrote you directing my letter to Raleigh, not knowing however where you were to be found yet feeling confident that your good ...
See MoreCampbell House Museum Robert's out on the frontier and he's homesick for streets, the sophistication of the city and his family: "To fancy myself transported from fifteen hundred miles beyond civilization, leaving all my cares behind, and entering the most agreeable and acceptable Society that I can imagine, produces a sensation that it be...gging words to describe..." In later passages, Robert tells Mary about the plight of Native American women. See for yourself at the blog:
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September 30, 2009 at 6:07 pm · Filed under This Week in History ·Tagged Fort William, Hugh Campbell (brother), Mary Kyle Campbell, Robert Campbell, Yellowstone
See MoreCampbell House Museum Just five months before Virginia and Robert tied the knot, Virginia's sister Eleanor -- the very same sister with the impeccable taste to marry a slave trader -- unloads on poor Virginia for considering marrying Robert: "...I advise you against marrying R. Campbell...if you were to marry him it would be for money alon...e." Virginia a golddigger? We think not! Read about it here:
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September 22, 2009 at 4:33 pm · Filed under This Week in History ·Tagged Bishop Otey, Eleanor Kyle Otey, Jerry Kyle, L. Moore, Lynchburg, Miss Briggs, Miss Cook, Richmond, Robert Campbell, Virginia Kyle Campbell
Campbell House Museum This week marks the anniversary of Andrew Campbell's death. As Robert and Hugh's older brother, Andrew stayed in Ireland to manage their father's properties. Read the death notice and see pictures of the burial plot and beautiful landscape surrounding it here:
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His remains will be removed for interment in theFamily Burying-Ground of Corrick, on TuesdayMorning, 15th Instant, at 11 o’clock
Campbell House Museum This week Robert is out on the frontier and he sent his mother what seems to be a long-overdue letter. In it, he details some of the workings of the fur trade (buffalo skins dressed and beaver skins), the new fort he is building, and how much he misses his mother and he wants nothing more than for her to be happy: "I ...am solicitor of your comfort...and would...make any sacrifice to insure it." Aww.
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September 8, 2009 at 5:10 pm · Filed under This Week in History ·Tagged Elizabeth Buchanan Campbell, Robert Campbell, William Sublette
Campbell House Museum Mrs. Kyle -- Virginia's mother -- really does not like her other daughter's husband. Poor Eleanor Kyle married Walter Otey, a not very nice man who, among other things, happened to be a slave trader. Mrs. Kyle tells Virginia in this week's letter, "...if I had $1,000,000, I would cheerfully give it to have her Eleano...r Kyle again." Read more son-in-law bashing on this week's blog post:
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September 2, 2009 at 6:21 pm · Filed under This Week in History ·Tagged Eleanor Kyle Otey, James Campbell (1842-1849), Virginia Kyle Campbell, Walter Otey
Campbell House Museum In our latest installment of "This Week in Campbell House History," we're sharing a letter from Robert to his brother Hugh where he tells the story of a tragic duel between two of his friends (they both lost). Incidentally, Robert thinks Illinois has better roads than Missouri. Read about it here:
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St. Louis August 30th 1831Dear Hugh,I have just returned from the lower part of the state after performing a journey of 8 days in company with my friend (Mr. Keyts) as I apprised you in a former letter was my intention. We crossed the Mississippi river at St. ...
Campbell House Museum Shortly after Robert arrived in St. Louis, Hugh sends his brother a letter to thank him for the $200 he sent and Hugh tells Robert all about business back home. He later goes on to talk about the different newspapers he could send Robert: "The Whig is a respectable literary & political miscellany and preferable to th...e Enquirer inasmuch as there are fewer dissertations on state rights in the former."
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My Dear RobertOn Friday last I had the pleasureOf yours dated 27th ult covering two united statesBank notes of One Hundred dolls each. For the remittanceI sincerely thank you As you observe I do not ...
Campbell House Museum This week, Hugh is visiting his dad's old stomping grounds at Fort Laramie. Between observing the distribution of Indian annuities, meeting his dad's old pals and getting to shoot his new gun, Hugh's having a busy trip. "Mr. Burdeau was introduced to us and spoke to me most touchingly of you. He told me that you raised him up."
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Day before yesterday I went to the distribution of annuties on the Major’s own horse which is very beautiful and at the same time most spirited animal that I ever rode. Mr. Bullock kindly gave us a letter of introduction to Maj. Loree the Indian agent.
