Anheuser-Busch Brewery

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|caption = The packaging plant in St. Louis, Missouri

|location = 721 Pestalozzi
St. Louis, Missouri

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|built = 1875

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|architecture = Romanesque

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Anheuser-Busch Brewery is a brewery complex in St. Louis, Missouri.{{cite book |title=Missouri at the World's Fair |publisher=Woodward & Tiernan printing co |page=[https://archive.org/details/missouriatworlds00worl/page/161 161] |url=https://archive.org/details/missouriatworlds00worl}} It was opened in 1852 by German immigrant Adolphus Busch. It a National Historic Landmark District. The Lyon Schoolhouse Museum is on the grounds at the Anheuser-Busch Brewery. It is considered to be one of oldest school buildings in St Louis. It served as the head offices of the brewery after 1907.{{Cite web |last=Naffziger |first=Chris |date=2015-03-11 |title=A Look Inside Anheuser-Busch's New Historic Schoolhouse Museum |url=https://www.stlmag.com/api/content/ffaa1f40-c76b-11e4-9c16-22000a4f82a6/ |access-date=2022-06-24 |website=www.stlmag.com |language=en-us}} The museum contains rare mementos gathered from the founding of the company to current day, including pictures of the brewery and its expansion over the years. The {{convert|142|acre|ha}} property includes 189 buildings. Some of the most striking are red brick Romanesque architecture with crenelated towers and elaborate ornamentation.

File:Anheuser Busch Brewery Brew House and Boiler House, Ninth and Pestalozzi Streets.jpg

The company keeps a rotation of its Budweiser Clydesdales at its headquarters; the historic draft horses were originally used to pull wagons carrying beer in the 19th-century days of the company and are now one of the recognizable symbols of the brand. Visitors to the brewery can observe the Clydesdales in their exercise field and see their places in the carriage house.

Some of the herd is kept at the company farm in St. Louis County. Known as Grant's Farm (having been owned by former President Ulysses S. Grant at one time), this complex is also home to other animals such as elephants, tortoises, and a variety of mammals. Since 2008, approximately half of the Budweiser Clydesdales have been kept at the Warm Springs Ranch near Booneville, Missouri.

The brewery was designated a U.S. National Historic Landmark in 1966, recognizing the company's place in the history of beer brewing and distribution in the United States.{{Cite journal|url={{NHLS url|id=66000945}}|title=National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: Anheuser-Busch Brewery|date=April 1978 |format=PDF |author=Cecil McKithan and Stephen Lissandrello |publisher=National Park Service|access-date=2009-06-22}} and {{NHLS url|id=66000945|title=Accompanying four photos, from 1895, ca. 1900, 1942, and ca. 1970|photos=y}} {{small|(1.90 MB)}} The landmarked area includes 189 structures spread over {{convert|142|acre|ha}}, including many red brick Romanesque ones "with square crenelated towers and elaborate details." The Brew House, built in 1891-1892, is particularly notable for its "multi-storied hop chandeliers, intricate iron-work, and utilization of natural light".