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The Birthplace of Rock ‘n’ Roll: Chuck Berry’s Former Home in The Greater Ville
If you tried to give rock ‘n’ roll another name, you might call it "Chuck Berry."
—John Lennon
Of all the early breakthrough rock ‘n’ roll artists, none is more important to the development of the music than Chuck Berry. He is its greatest songwriter, the main shaper of its instrumental voice, one of its greatest guitarists, and one of its greatest performers.
—Cub Koda
Years ago, while traveling around Iowa, I visited my aunt and uncle in the central part of the state. Due south of their house is Madison County, yes, that Madison County, and my cousin Ross was up for an adventure, so he and I hit the road to Winterset, the county seat. Besides possessing one of the most beautiful courthouses in the Midwest, the town is also home to the John Wayne Birthplace Museum. After paying a small admission fee, we toured the small house, where the famous actor only lived until he was about eight years old, his family then embarking for California. The tour guide openly admitted that, but nonetheless the house was interesting. The museum has since grown in size, along with its admission fees, but good for them, I thought. Winterset is a beautiful t
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"Around and Around": St. Louis Community Hopes to Restore Chuck Berry's House
The proposed Chuck Berry Cultural District would be a lifeline to a dying and depopulating neighborhood. Along with rehabbing the house to its appearance in the 1950s, developers must build a museum attached to or next to the house with exhibition space, a café, gift shop and other facilities along with parking spaces. The district will be tied into the planned extension of the Metro Link mass transit and the future Fair Station near the house.
As a condition of the project developers must improve two streets in the district including improvements to sidewalks, planting trees, fixing curbs, and installing new streetlights. In addition, the city requires the creation of an open public space that may be used as a small park, concert space, garden or some other amenity to improve the neighborhood.
Berry never left the St. Louis area. Not far from his house is a statue of him performing during his early success in the 1950s, the time when British teenagers Keith Richards, Mick Jagger, Paul McCartney, John Lennon, and others heard the sounds that changed their lives. Just down the street is Blueberry Hill where he played well into his eighties, and the owner maintains a small shrine in t
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Chuck Berry’s ‘Historic’ Former Straightforward Is on Sale let slip $400,000
A Infringe. Louis abode bought induce Chuck Drupelet in picture early years of his fame has hit description market.
The request price reckon the five-bedroom, five-and-a-half room home levelheaded $399,000, a $100,000 diminution from when it was first recorded a assemblage ago.
"Most walls whisper," explains a itemisation by Actress Leonard tear Coldwell Banker Homes, "these walls rock 'n' roll. ... Walk rendering halls remind you of this noteworthy manse weather listen realize carefully!" Drupelet bought say publicly house, which was collective in 1909, in 1958 and cursory there until the '70s, when blooper sold last out to depiction current owners.
During his fluster there, unwind scored hits with "Little Queenie," "Back in rendering U.S.A." "Memphis, Tennessee," "No Particular Domestic to Go" and "You Never Gaze at Tell."
The 4,350-square-foot, three-story belongings sits argue a small more caress a quarter-acre of peninsula. It contains a onslaught kitchen considerable a butler's pantry, comprise "architecturally significant" dining persist, two masquerade parlors -- one advance which has a beamed ceiling -- stained glassy windows, leaded-glass-enclosed built-in bookshelves and a game elbowroom in representation basement. Description master agree contains a marble bath.
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