LOOKING BACK is a Leader online feature that highlights historic photos. Readers are invited to submit their historic Jefferson County photos for online publication.
Bernie Wilde of the Arnold Historical Society sent in this photo of the Cedar Crest Country Club.
Wilde writes: “It was located near Tenbrook Station at Fannie Road. A home constructed in 1891 was enlarged and became the Cedar Crest Country Club from 1920-1942. The grounds were scenes for picnics, ballgames and other recreational activities.
“The country club was owned by the Anheuser-Busch family and used as a retreat for employees. There was an ice house on the grounds with 3-foot walls for insulation. Ice cut from the Meramec River in winter was stored here for the summer supply. Antique firetrucks were also stored here.
“The picture is from Dale Kramlich, whose grandparents, Louis and Emma Kramlich, moved there in 1937 with their children: Lorenz, Edwin (Dale’s father), Frieda and Ruth.”
“Dale writes, ‘My grandparents were living there when World War II broke out and my father, Edwin, and his older brother, Lorenz, joined the service. When the war ended, my grandparents were living somewhere else. My great-aunt and uncle, Charles and Marie Kramlich, were the caretakers of the property in the 1930s. The Cedar Crest Country Club was still there in the 1970s and owned then by Walter Kundert of WK Manufacturing.
“‘My dad always referred to the Telegraph Road bridge over the Meramec River as the ‘new bridge’ which was built when he lived there in the late 1930s. All of the Kramlich children went to Soulard School.’”
