Comments on: Minoma: the lost treasure of Northwoods

By: Paul Block

Paul Block — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 19:42:07 +0000

This is very interesting! I looked up Minoma on the Missouri Historical site, which shows 6617 Hazen as it’s address. Which would place it right there next to this house pictured on Donald Street, which I agree resembles Marias Castor very much.

By: Paul Block

Paul Block — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 19:14:56 +0000

I found the Marias Castor picture referenced, in a Persimmon Hill I bought, and scanned it to Patricia, who posted it to her Early St Louis site. I believe it was a reprint from a local newspaper in the late 60′s or early 70′s. 1875′s Pictorial St Louis by Compton and Dry also shows Marias Castor behind Minoma on plate 107. There are a few websiteswhere you can look it up.

By: thurmond griffin

thurmond griffin — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 03:28:03 +0000

The roof lines are different I think this house was built on the land that is now pine lawn but my house is located a block outside of pine lawn I’m still researching it mars no since to build a house behind a mansion with 21 rooms not historian learning

By: Ron Dean

Ron Dean — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 19:31:59 +0000

Look at the picture titled “Marais Castor”, the country estate of Gen. William Clark at “http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~earlystlouis/res-clarkmaraiscastor.html”, which was supposedly torn down. This must be the same house?

By: Louis Matustik

Louis Matustik — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 13:39:06 +0000

I was born in and grew up in a house on Council Grove at the top of the hill. My teacher at Garfield school took our class on a walk around the area near Minoma about 1937 or 38. I still have faint memories of Minoma and finding arrowheads around my neighborhood. It is nice to learn about the mansions fate.