All Historic District in Sainte Genevieve

360 Merchant Street Ste. Geneviève, MO 63670 Open Monday and Wednesday thru Saturday 11:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. and Sunday 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Email us at louiessmokinhot@gmail.com FB Louie’s Smokin’ Hot Louie’s Smokin’ Hot is a specialty grocer featuring hot sauces, hot smokes, BBQ sauces and a variety of other sauces and mustards. Sample infused olive oils with some homemade baguettes. Try fig, truffle, maple, and Sicilian lemon-infused balsamic vinegar. Louie’s Smokin’ Hot also carries fine cigars in a humidity-controlled humidor. Enjoy sitting and sampling! Read more…

About the Museum Learning Center:  If you’re looking for something that will dazzle you to see in a small town, be sure to stop by the Museums Learning Center (otherwise known as the “Dinosaur Musuem.”  This place is one huge labor of love and a microcosm of what makes this community special.   Your adventure starts in the hall of giants, a room full of massive life-like dinosaur and other Cretaceous Period animal replicas.  Surrounding those are shadow boxes filled with actual fossils from different periods.  On the west end of the hall is a glassed-in room where live Archaeologists periodically work in front of visitors scrupulously chiseling away the clay around the bones of the Missouri dinosaur.  The next layer of exhibits centers around the fossils of that now-famed dinosaur and the current dig happening just south of Sainte Geneviève.  The entire upstairs moves more toward modern times and focuses on interesting collections from a variety of topics, from Civil War Battlefields, to the objects found buried in the outhouses that used to reside in the yards of early St. Louisans.  The story that you won’t get that makes this so impressive is the collections on display, and the dinosaur Read more…

Sainte Geneviève has long been a haven for artists.  Probably because there hasn’t been a time when it wasn’t a portal to a different world or a different time.  Not only that, but the pace of life is just different here.  It’s more suited for artists.  That’s why we served as an incubation chamber for a significant part of the Regionalist movement in the Midwest; hosting juggernauts of the movement like Thomas Hart Benton and Joe Jones.  In fact, works from the Sainte Geneviève Art Colony and those aforementioned artists are on display upstairs in Silver Sycamore, alongside works from Sainte Geneviève’s native son, M. Charles Rhinehart, an artist of immense talent whose training among colony members draws a clear line from that tradition to today. Speaking of today, Silver Sycamore does an incredible job of showcasing Sainte Geneviève area artists.  While it’s harder to find artists that are part of a movement, the landscape is much richer for independent artists that are blazing their own trail.  Artists like Ste. Gen resident Ali Cavanaugh, whose watercolor portraiture has graced the cover of Time Magazine, painted heroes like Taylor Swift, and who has her own line of paints with Golden.  Artists Read more…

U.S. 250 in Sainte Geneviève – Commemorating America’s Forgotten Western Front May 30-May 31, 2026 Missouri’s oldest town becomes the center of Revolutionary War commemoration as Sainte Geneviève hosts its U.S. 250 celebration the weekend after Memorial Day, honoring the 245th anniversary of the Battle of Fort San Carlos—the westernmost engagement of the American Revolution and a pivotal moment in determining control of the Mississippi River. This two-day living history event brings to life the diverse forces that shaped America’s founding on the frontier, featuring appearances by George Washington and Spanish Governor Bernardo de Gálvez, military encampments representing French, Spanish, British, Osage, and American forces, hands-on historical experiences, period vendors, and a spectacular fireworks finale. The Forgotten Battle That Saved the Mississippi On May 26, 1780, the small Franco-Spanish village of St. Louis faced an assault by nearly 1,000 British-allied Native American warriors and fur traders intent on seizing control of the Mississippi River. Spanish Lieutenant Governor Fernando de Leyba had hastily constructed Fort San Carlos—a single stone tower with trenches—and desperately needed reinforcements. Sainte Geneviève answered the call. François Vallé, a 64-year-old former French militia captain, sent his two sons and 60 well-trained militiamen north to St. Louis, along Read more…