Tag: Downtown

Coffee, Pastries, Breakfast, Lunch About Common Grounds:  Common Grounds is another unique community story that will give you the fuzzies thinking about Sainte Geneviève.  It’s a coffee house that employs special needs individuals, giving them the feeling of independence while giving the customers smiles.  And it’s due in large part to one man: Major Jason Schott of the Ste. Genevieve Sherriff’s Department.  Major Schott is a big part of Ste. Genevieve’s movement towards inclusion for folks with special needs, spearheading efforts to set our community apart by building an all-inclusive playground at Progress Sports Complex, Challenger Field, an all-inclusive soft-ball field at the same site, expanding the scope of Ste. Genevieve’s Independence Center made to help adults with special needs become more independent, and last but not least, starting Common Grounds in downtown Sainte Geneviève. The result of the effort to create Common Grounds has given this town a consistent place to get good coffee, breakfast, and lunch throughout the week.  They serve various coffees and hot beverages as well as pastries, quiches, wraps, salads, and light sandwiches. Read more…

Location: Historic Downtown Ste. Geneviève Attention shoppers: Follow the Cookie Crumb Trail! Sample cookies and collect recipes to get started on your own Christmas baking! Participating downtown shops will feature a different cookie recipe and have sample cookies for you to taste. Proceeds go to a local family in need. Just in time for Christmas! Read more…

Cozy Haven – Modern Tiny House Meets Historic Downtown Ste. Genevieve Near the Ste. Genevieve Historic District, Cozy Haven offers guests a “sweet little gem”—a modern tiny house cottage combining contemporary design with vintage charm, operated by experienced Superhost Jayne (same host as the neighboring bungalow and Wrens Landing downtown). Built on a site with visible historic home remnants in the backyard, this one-bedroom cottage sleeps four guests within easy walking distance of downtown shops, restaurants, wineries, art galleries, museums, and French Colonial house tours. Guests arrive at 3:00 PM for keypad entry, settle into accommodations featuring coffee bar with Keurig and complimentary coffee/tea, smart TV, full kitchen, air conditioning, patio access, garden area with firepit perfect for sipping local wines, and thoughtful touches like food and refreshments stocked in fridge, games, and reading material. The result: a 5.0-star Superhost property where guests “really enjoyed this property. Cozy and comfortable. Jayne is great to work with and communicates quickly. Perfect little spot for two,” and where “nice place within walking distance of downtown” meets “well set up with nice touches” and hospitality “better than a hotel room.” Book through Airbnb (search “COZY HAVEN Sweet Little Gem Ste Genevieve”) or contact Read more…

305 Merchant Street Ste. Geneviève, MO 63670 Call us at 573-883-2731 Located in the Ste. Geneviève historic district, the DuBourg Centre is a newly renovated 100-year-old building offering one of the most beautiful event spaces in southeastern Missouri. It offers seating from 25 to 250 for corporate meetings, holiday parties, wedding ceremonies and/or receptions, rehearsal dinners, as well as bridal or baby showers. Catering Read more…

EKlekTix – Jean Rissover Became a Painter at 70 and Now Creates Narrative Art While You Watch At 130 North Main Street in an 1860s building, Jean Rissover paints during the hours her gallery is open—not as demonstration or performance but as working artist fully engaged in creating the figurative paintings that crowd her studio walls. About 75 original oil paintings, most 11×14 inches or smaller, fill the space alongside eclectic giftware sourced from artisans around the world. The paintings tell stories, primarily of women—their activities, experiences, relationships, joys, sorrows, and moods—drawn from Rissover’s imagination populated by characters who “live in her head” and demand to be painted. Some focus on Sainte Geneviève’s French colonial history. Others explore universal experiences of being female across time and culture. All are narrative in nature, inviting viewers to construct stories around the figures Rissover portrays with loose, impressionistic brushwork that suggests rather than defines, leaving space for interpretation. The remarkable part isn’t just the art—it’s the journey. Jean Rissover started painting in 2011 at age 70, after retiring from a career spanning teaching, social work, event organization, antique shop ownership, and managing editor of the Ste. Genevieve Herald. It was her first serious Read more…