The Restoration

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• Public Schedule – April 30, 2024
• See what visitors have to say
• Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture
• April 24, 2024 - US university protests
• Guest Cottages
• Joshua Tree National Park

Flex­i­ble appoint­ments for these pro­grams and tours are avail­able every day of the year except nation­al hol­i­days. The rate for groups of 10 or more is $5 per stu­dent, schools are encour­aged to con­tact the Muse­um to dis­cuss pric­ing. The final major alter­ations came in 1867, when the Camp­bells embarked on a grand tour of Europe. While they were away, Robert had the par­lor recon­fig­ured, added two bays to both the main house and the floun­der wing, and added a third floor to the floun­der. The three sur­viv­ing sons made only a few changes of their own, con­vert­ing the house to elec­tric­i­ty and adding a bath­room to the sec­ond floor. The California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt campus will remain closed through the weekend as protesters, including "unidentified non-students," continue to occupy two buildings, school officials said in an update.

Public Schedule – April 30, 2024

Joined by a quarrelsome fairy and the boy who taught her to fly, she quickly discovers that a life of adventure comes at a price. With the memory of her family fading, she and her companions must outwit a hungry crocodile, brawl with pirates, and find the magic within themselves to return home again, or remain in the land of make-believe forever. This is a beautiful house in downtown St. Louis which contains all the original furnishings.

See what visitors have to say

Our tour guide was friendly and knowledgeable, and the tour group was not too large. I rang the doorbell and was greeted by Sam, who gave me a detailed tour of the home of one of St. Louis’s early wealthy families, filled with their original furniture and art. “Once you set foot inside, you will be trans­port­ed to a dif­fer­ent world and time.

Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture

Only after a detailed analy­sis was com­plet­ed was a final plan for the restora­tion developed. In addi­tion to the pho­tos, the Muse­um is for­tu­nate to have a large col­lec­tion of let­ters, ledgers and receipts from the Camp­bells that doc­u­ment changes made to the house between 1854 and 1938. This col­lec­tion also doc­u­ments the com­plex busi­ness, fam­i­ly and social rela­tion­ships of the family. Built in 1851, the first house in the ele­gant Lucas Place neigh­bor­hood, the Camp­bell House was the home of renowned fur trad­er and entre­pre­neur Robert Camp­bell and his fam­ily from 1854 until 1938. The muse­um con­tains hun­dreds of orig­i­nal Camp­bell pos­ses­sions includ­ing fur­ni­ture, paint­ings, cloth­ing, let­ters, car­riages and a unique set of inte­rior pho­tographs tak­en in the mid-1880s.

If we are able to accom­mo­date your tour request, we ask that you pay in advance using the link we will pro­vide you. If you would rather, you can also sched­ule your vis­it by call­ing us at (314) 421‑0325 dur­ing nor­mal busi­ness hours (M‑F, 9–5 p.m.). The first floor interior, on two levels, provides a sense of drama.

Includ­ed in these doc­u­ments is a unique album of 60 pho­tographs of the inte­ri­or of the house tak­en in about 1885. In 2005, CHM com­plet­ed a metic­u­lous five-year restora­tion that returned the build­ing to its opu­lent 1880s appear­ance, when the house was one of the cen­ters of St. Louis society. This very large col­lec­tion includes pri­ma­ry mate­ri­als on the activ­i­ties of Camp­bell, his friends, asso­ciates, busi­ness part­ners and adver­saries.

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Celebrating its 50th anniversary in 1942, local St. Louis department store, Stix, Baer and Fuller purchased the house from Yale University and presented it to the people of St. Louis through the Campbell House Foundation. The house had been left to Yale University by the will of the oldest Campbell son, Hugh in honor of the youngest James, who had died at the young age of 30 and who had attended Yale University. Edu­ca­tion­al tours are designed to incor­po­rate a vari­ety of top­ics and themes. Some sug­gest­ed top­ics are list­ed below, and we wel­come any top­ics not list­ed. Vis­i­tors are wel­come to choose one or more top­ics to be incor­po­rat­ed into the gen­er­al tour.

Guest Cottages

The William Clark Soci­ety, togeth­er with oth­er orga­ni­za­tions like the Adver­tis­ing Club of St. Louis, band­ed togeth­er to try to save the house. In just six weeks, they man­aged to raise $6,000 to pur­chase many Camp­bell items at auc­tion in 1941. Hun­dreds of oth­er pieces were donat­ed by pri­vate cit­i­zens. The house itself was not pur­chased until 1942, with the help of a large dona­tion by Stix, Baer, and Fuller, a local depart­ment store. Although this tar­get date is more than 30 years after the con­struc­tion of the house and its pur­chase by the Camp­bells, 1885 offers a unique point to look at how both gen­er­a­tions of fam­i­ly lived in the build­ing.

Joshua Tree National Park

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The inte­ri­or restora­tion began in the Spring of 2001 and was com­plet­ed in May 2005. Public voting for your favorite art work is open through October. Established by homesteaders Bill and Elizabeth Campbell in 1925, this property has a unique and beautiful story. Experience all the modern comforts of home with plenty of space to hang out, inside or out. Located on the west side of the grounds, the Pool Cottage is your home away from home in the desert. Don’t worry about the heat; as the name implies, this individual cottage is located poolside.

Other features include a den, decorated in the popular Middle Eastern style, well-planned service areas, and four upstairs bedrooms. Both the Campbells and the Finches hired renowned Spokane architect Kirtland K. Cutter to design their new homes near each other in Browne’s Addition. Finch, the conservative financier, chose a Neoclassical Revival style. Campbell, the bold mining venturer, chose a more picturesque English Tudor Revival exterior of stucco, sandstone, brick and heavy timbers.

All facades are of fin­ished and paint­ed brick, except the unpaint­ed west facade. Although it looks like a row house, it was nev­er attached to any­thing. The Camp­bell House rep­re­sents an impor­tant tran­si­tion­al peri­od in hous­ing design. Phys­i­cal inves­ti­ga­tion of the build­ing’s fab­ric helps fill in the gaps in the archival record. Changes to the inte­ri­or became vis­i­ble after care­ful exam­i­na­tion of plas­ter walls, con­struc­tion mate­ri­als, and shad­ow marks that often indi­cat­ed an ear­li­er loca­tion of door­ways, walls, and stairs. Detailed paint analy­sis through­out the house pro­vid­ed the col­or palette and pat­terns for wall sten­cil­ing, wood­work and oth­er dec­o­ra­tion.

The university closed its campus Wednesday evening as LAPD began arresting demonstrators. Campbell House is included with regular Museum admission and is available for self-guided tours Tuesday through Sunday from 12-4 pm. Please confirm your Campbell House visit with the Visitor Services staff when you buy your tickets or check-in. In 1885, an exhaus­tive series of pho­tographs was tak­en through­out the house, com­piled into an album, and then lost until the late 20th cen­tu­ry when they were redis­cov­ered and used as the basis for our mul­ti-mil­lion dol­lar restora­tion project.

The interior restoration began in the Spring 2001 and was completed in 2005 restoring the house as closely as possible to its appearance in the 1885 photographs. When the foundation got possession of the house in 1942 they immediately began raising funds to refurbish the interior with new wallpaper, paint and carpets. This redecoration reflected a mid-20th-century concept of the Campbell's Victorian interior and was not an accurate restoration of what had existed in the 19th century.