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Southern Hotel
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| You are cordially invited to enjoy the fine accommodations of this 200-year-old landmark, just 1-hour south of St. Louis in Historic Ste. Genevieve. Step gently into the time when riverboats plied the mighty Mississippi and weary travelers looked forward to the hospitality of this famous hotel. At the Southern Hotel the graciousness of the past is carefully blended with modern comforts to make your stay a very special experience.
This graceful Federal building operated as a hotel from 1805 and was known for the finest accommodations between Natchez and St. Louis. It was famous for fine food, busy gambling and the first pool hall west of the Mississippi.
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Things To Do
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| Tour Historic 1700s Homes, Antiques, Wine Tasting, Shopping, Mo Art Studio, Restaurants, Antique Malls, 3 state hiking parks, golf, Summer Theater, National Tiger Sanctuary |
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Rooms
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|  | Buttons & Bows
This is the most perfect lover's retreat you'll find. The walls are decorated with hand painted fleur-de-lis on a peach background. A rosewood half-tester bed as old as the Southern covered with pure
white linens stars... until you notice those claw foot tubs. The pair faces each other, allowing you to gaze at your true love as you sip chilled champagne and soak in billowy bubbles (compliments of the Southern). It's a perfect way to celebrate an anniversary...or just to remember how very much you love your mate. | Room Rate
$175 |
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| | Cabbage Rose Room
This is the most 'Victorian' of our rooms, so named because of the eras passion for the overblown, multi-petaled, most fragrant rose of them all. We chose simple walnut furniture (Civil War era) for the room as befits a country dwelling.
However, the real star of the room is the fan collection over the fireplace. Fans did a lot more than stir the air during the Victorian era. By the 17th century, Paris was the undisputed hub of the fan making industry. But it took the Victorians to make the fan into an object of communication. | Room Rate
$145 |
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| | Gentlemen's Room
The subdued colors, somewhat of an English feel and of course, our gentlemen's portraits inspired the name. The claw foot tub was painted by Dolly and resembles an English garden.
The pencil post reproduction king sized bed is adorned in part with vintage linens. The headpiece is an Irish linen bedcover with three dimensional Irish crochet inserts. What luxury it must have been to sleep on and under linen bed-cloths. The tussie-mussies hanging in the
corners of the canopy are made with flowers and herbs grown here in the
garden. In the Victorian language of flowers, they hold meanings of love and trust. | Room Rate
$145 |
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| | Japonisme Room
Japonisme was a word coined by the Victorians to describe a room decorated with Orientalia. Our collection of over 150 carved soapstone pieces are displayed. Soapstone is a soft, greasy mineral that is indeed used for soap in the far east. Appearing in all colors, pieces were made as gifts and remembrances.
During the 1880s it began to appear in the United States and Victorians, with their usual passion for excess, collected it. The bedside tables and the bronze ceremonial pots are Chinese in origin and date between 1820 and 1850.
The bed is a one of a kind, as I designed it. The headpiece is composed
of metal rings, each one made by a different blacksmith and demonstrating his particular area of expertise with metal. The one of a kind rings were made by the Missouri Blacksmith Association in 1986. Our local blacksmith, Stan Winkler, was kind enough to make the bed and put it all together and turn it into an important part of our decor. | Room Rate
$145 |
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| | Lulilbelle Guest Room
Barbara thought it only fitting that Lulabelle, her doll and one of the few things to survive her childhood, deserved a special place in our new home. Surrounded by the dolls dresser and Murphy bed, and her clothes trunk nearby, she sits serenely in her ladderback made by great grandfather.
The rolltop desks also belonged to Barbara and her sister Sharon. Many happy hours were spent playing at school and store by our children as well as the two sisters and still bear the marks of our children at play.
The bed in this room is the highest off the floor and was originally a rope bed. It is also probably one of the oldest in the hotel (circa 1770's). Dolly painted an angelic scene on the headboard as a sweet surprise when the bed is turned down. | Room Rate
$125 |
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| | Paul's Purple Room
A very dear friend, named Paul of course, volunteered many hours here
and this room was referred to as his room (a very long story...you must ask Barbara). The brass bed, well over 150 years old bought at a junk store, took
four weeks to polish the first time. Kathy, another close friend, and Barbara used Porter's Friend and enough steel wool to take off their fingerprints. It turned out beautifully and the man in the junk store never learned what happened to the $4 bed now worth $1400. Among Dolly's favorite things are birds nests and violets, this was the room to indulge both passions on the tub. Barbara stenciled the border at the ceiling, under the ceiling fan and the walls behind the tub. Dolly has painted the wonderful "Violet Seller" one of several "silent people" she has done for the Southern. | Room Rate
$125 |
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| | The Quilt Room
Great grandmother Rachel was always there, making a pie by feel or reaching for a scrap to piece up a quilt. Many of the quilts displayed and used in this room are hers, stitched by hand and quilted at the church on Wednesdays. This is a warm and cozy room which contains some of our favorite things, all with a story. The $5 pie safe that took all the summer of 1967 to restore, the crazy quilt of wools, dated 1886-1887, given to us by a dear friend, and the
armadillo which holds the contents of Grandma Beulah's sewing basket.
Beulah preferred crochet, bingo and driving in second gear, but I remember the sewing basket. Many of the wooden thread spools used to make Mike's chess set, in honor of the Bobby Fischer matches, also came out of that same basket. The bed, a four poster cannonball (exactly like the one in Lincoln's bedroom in Springfield, Illinois), was purchased in Sedalia, Missouri.
We were traveling in our little Ford Escort wagon and Mike said I could buy it if I could get it in the car. You see it, don't you? | Room Rate
$125 |
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| | The Wysocki Room
Charles Wysocki is an American folk artist whose work we began collecting in the 70's. All of his work is very distinctive and contains an hidden element of humor and has always made me smile. Can you find the fox in Fox Run? That's the print hanging over the chest of drawers that has been decoupaged with scenes from the calenders Wysocki did. The headboard of the bed Barbara did, with scraps left over from the building of the kitchen cupboards. This was a work of love as it took over three months to complete the three demensional piece. I suppose it personifies the sampler hanging above the double chair ("Use it up, Wear it out, Make it do, Do without"). A footboard was planned in the same three dimensional style, but a trunk is used instead. The folk art makes this a cozy room, at its best on a crisp fall afternoon when it is flooded with reflected reds and golds from the sugar maple next door, leaves all ablaze. | Room Rate
$125 |
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Directions
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| Interstate I 55 to Exit 150 Hwy 32 for Ste. Genevieve.
East on 32 all the way thru town till you come to the first stop SIGN at 4th & Market. The Catholic Church with the huge steeple is just in front of you.
We are 1 block to the right at Third & Market. |
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