Tag: Weddings in Sainte Genevieve

Main Street Inn Bed & Breakfast – Where Art, History, and Vision Transform Hospitality in Sainte Geneviève Step through the doors of the Main Street Inn Bed & Breakfast and you immediately understand that your time here will be a curate experience. Originally built in 1882 as the Meyer Hotel, this three-story brick landmark has welcomed travelers to Sainte Geneviève for more than 140 years. But following an extensive year-long renovation, proprietors Susan O’Donnell and Patrick Fahey transformed this historic property into something extraordinary: a bed and breakfast where world-class art, meticulous attention to preservation, and genuine hospitality create an experience that aligns with what you’d expect in Missouri’s oldest city. The Main Street Inn stands as home, gallery and gathering place, historic structure and comfortable retreat. Here, you’re encourage to meander through the house and take inspiration in the work that went into its restoration and the nuance of its collection.  For those visitors that are looking to bring home fresh inspiration to their design sensibilities, this is the stay for you. This is lodging for people who appreciate art, value history, and seek accommodations with personality and purpose rather than generic hotel uniformity. An Unexpected Gallery in Missouri’s Read more…

The Anvil Saloon & Restaurant At 46 South Third Street on Ste. Genevieve’s historic downtown square, The Anvil doesn’t chase trends or Michelin stars—it does something far more enduring. For nearly 170 years, this building has delivered honest, home-cooked comfort food in atmosphere so authentically old-time that you half expect steamboat captains and frontier merchants to walk through the door. The centerpiece isn’t just the food, though those world-famous onion rings are genuinely legendary. It’s the bar itself: a massive, ornate back bar that arrived via steamboat in the 1850s, reportedly salvaged from a vessel that sank or ran aground in the Mississippi River, then hauled by oxcart to this building where it’s anchored conversations, celebrations, and community gatherings for nearly 170 years. The combination of uncompromised comfort food, authentic historical character, and genuine small-town hospitality creates dining experience that keeps locals returning weekly and tourists traveling from Europe, Asia, and across America specifically to experience what The Anvil delivers. Building History: From Hardware Store to Beloved Institution The building began as a hardware store (1850-1855), hence the “Anvil” name referencing the blacksmith’s tool. In 1855, the Vaeth family purchased it and transformed it into a gentlemen’s saloon, installing that 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…

Stella and Me Within Main Street’s historic pulse, tucked into Sainte Genevieve’s newly claimed “Little Bohemia,” sits a café where sandwiches arrive so perfectly composed that diners forget, quite literally, their own names. At 198 North Main, rustic hardwood floors carry the warmth of countless lunch hours. Local artwork adorns walls. The tearoom atmosphere whispers invitation—intimate, deliberately cozy, the kind of space where time moves differently than outside on crowded streets. Stella and Me has built its reputation one carefully crafted meal at a time, earning awards, devoted regulars who return weekly, and the kind of genuine enthusiasm that makes food-focused travelers detour specifically for lunch here. This isn’t chain dining masquerading as local flavor. This is small business where fresh ingredients, creative combinations, and genuine hospitality transform midday refueling into something memorable. Small Space, Generous Portions, Award-Winning Restraint The café occupies modest square footage—the kind of intimate space where parties larger than five contemplate waiting, where tall visitors watch their heads, where the smallness itself becomes virtue rather than limitation. Award-winning sandwiches didn’t earn recognition through volume or marketing but through genuine excellence: pretzel bun creations that have achieved near-legendary status among regulars—soft, slightly chewy rolls providing ideal vessels Read more…

Inn St. Gemme Beauvais At 78 North Main Street in the heart of Sainte Geneviève’s historic district stands Inn St. Gemme Beauvais—Missouri’s oldest continuously operating bed and breakfast, a three-story Federal-style mansion built circa 1848 by Felix Rozier, son of Ferdinand Rozier who partnered with John James Audubon in Ste. Genevieve from 1811-1812 before Audubon devoted himself fully to ornithology and creating The Birds of America. The inn carries the “St. Gemme Beauvais” name honoring Jean Baptiste St. Gemme dit Beauvais Jr., who supported George Rogers Clark’s Revolutionary War Illinois campaign and built the nearby Beauvais-Amoureux House in 1792—connecting guests to layered historical pedigree spanning French colonial settlement, American Federal architecture, and Rozier-Vallé family lead mining prosperity. Today’s Inn St. Gemme Beauvais offers eight themed guest rooms plus private Carriage House, each with period antiques, private bathrooms, king or queen beds, cable TV, and individual climate control, plus full plated breakfasts featuring local farm-fresh ingredients, second-floor kitchenette, beautiful gardens, off-street parking, and location placing guests within walking distance of every historic site, restaurant, shop, and cultural attraction. As one recent guest praised: “Been home for several hours and still feel relaxed from our stay. The Inn is stunning…Super clean, quiet, Read more…