Sassafras Creek Originals
311 St. Mary’s Road
Ste. Genevieve, MO 63670
(573) 513-2491
Sassafras Creek Originals
Add to My Trip:Sassafras Creek Originals showcases hand-crafted Colonial/primitive early American Folk Art. Each room is like a step back in time!
The Purple Finch
137 N Main Street
Ste. Genevieve, MO 63670
(573) 880-7337
The Purple Finch
Add to My Trip:The Purple Finch is a small shop filled with Home Decor, Jewelry, Handmade Quilts and Handmade Bath Products.
Ste. Genevieve Art Colony and Summer
School of Art DisplaySte. Genevieve Welcome Center
66 South Main Street
Ste. Genevieve, MO 63670
573-883-7097
800-373-7007
Ste. Genevieve Welcome Center
Add to My Trip:For several summers in the 1930’s, an Art Colony located in Ste. Genevieve conducted a Summer School of Art. Instead of painting rolling hills or flowers, the artists portrayed the human condition and Depression era events. Information about the school and some of its creations are on display at the Ste. Genevieve Welcome Center.
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Grave diggers, portraits, and lime kiln workers are depicted. The Summer School instructors included: Thomas Hart Benton, Fred E. Conway, Joseph James Jones, Miriam McKinnie, Joseph John Paul Meert, Jesse Beard Rickly, Aimee Goldstone Schweig, Martyl Schweig, E. Oscar Thalinger, Joseph Paul Vorst, and Matthew E. Ziegler.
The Linden House was built around 1820. Evidence of its vertical log construction is in a frame near the checkout counter. Today it serves as the Bolduc Museum’s gift shop as well as housing an art gallery and offices. French Colonial books, games, chocolates, household items, and postcards can be found in this shop across the street from the Bolduc House.
Rust Artisans’ Shop
173 North Main Street
Ste. Genevieve, MO 63670
573-883-9682
Only Child Originals and Rust Artisans
Add to My Trip:Rust Artisans’ Shop is a gallery of unique hand-crafted items by several local artists, such as paper filigree and knitted items. Most importantly, luminaries and lights made of old corrugated tin utilize the surplus of corrugated tin in Missouri.
Felix Valle Historic Site Gift Shop
Merchant and Second Streets
Ste. Genevieve, MO 63670
573-883-7102
Add to My Trip:Just across the street from the Felix Valle House is the Dr. Shaw House. Today it houses a gift shop featuring books concerning French Colonial history and some children’s books in French, colonial period items and soaps. The portion built in 1819 provides interpretive space for the site.
ASL Pewter Foundry
183 South Third St.,
Ste. Genevieve, MO 63670
573-883-2095
Website: aslpewter.com
Add to My Trip:ASL Pewter Foundry makes high-quality, lead-free pewter products that are not only functional, but works of art. Open Daily 9:30– 5:00. Demonstrations daily.
European Entitlements
102 South Main St.
Ste. Genevieve, MO, 63670
573-883-8233
Website:European Entitlements
Add to My Trip:This specialty shop sells fine European home décor and garden items made and manufactured only in Europe including French linens, Scottish jewelry, Italian and German porcelain, English creamware, Swedish linens, Irish wools, and French and Italian soaps. In addition, many of these products come from companies that have been in business for well over a century.
First Settlement Country Store
132 Merchant St.
Ste. Genevieve, MO 63670
573-883-8002
Add to My Trip:First Settlement features quality antiques, specializing in primitives, fine glassware, vintage clothing, jewelry, toys, linens, handcrafted wood accessories and stained glass items.
Odile’s Linen & Lace
34 South Third St.
Ste. Genevieve, MO 63670
573-883-2675
Odile’s Linen & Lace
Add to My Trip:Visit Odile’s Linen & Lace to enjoy rooms filled with fine curtains, laces, jewelry, baby items, accessories, and gift items.
Events
Traditional Artisans Showcase and Sale
July 22-23, 2017
ASL Pewter Foundry
183 South Third Street
Ste. Genevieve, MO 63670
573-883-2095
ASL Pewter
Add to My Trip:This traditional art show and sale features artisans from the Midwest who have been selected by Early American Life Magazine as the best in their fields. These artists and fine crafters display and sell their work and happily educate the public on the traditional way what they do is made and used. Above all, Guest artists
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include Mike Ochonicky, Scrimshaw; Doug and Julie Dawson, Tin cookie cutters and other tinware; Vernon DePauw, woodcarving; Suzette Krummel, Penny Rugs; Tom Wintczak, redware pottery and fracture; Kandye Mahurin, painted game boards on antique bread and cutting boards.
Holiday Christmas Festival
When: First full weekend in December
Where: Historic District, Ste. Genevieve, MO
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Experience a wonderland of Christmas festivities in Ste. Genevieve during the annual Holiday Christmas Festival. A cultural celebration of 500 years of holiday music, performed by renowned musicians from across the region, is featured at free performances in historic churches and other downtown venues throughout the weekend. A Christmas parade, caroling, colonial
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decorations, free pictures with Santa for the little ones, and so much more make this a truly memorable event. In addition, Ste. Genevieve Art Guild hosts an Art Show & Sale, downtown shops offer refreshments, some historic site offer open houses, a Friday night Variety Show is presented at the local Performing Arts Center and you can delight in an old-fashioned Christmas Tree lighting ceremony on Saturday evening at the Welcome Center – a truly marvelous event!
Le Reveillon
French ChristmasFelix Valle State Historic Site
Merchant and 2nd Streets
Ste. Genevieve, MO 63670573-883-7102
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This annual holiday celebration highlights the music, customs, and crafts of early French Colonial Christmas in Ste. Genevieve. The celebration, known as Le Reveillon, features costumed guides who explain the early 19th century customs of Christmas. Traditional foods and music of the period are featured.
4th Friday Art Walk (Feb thru Oct)
Historic Downtown Ste. Genevieve
800-373-7007
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Bring your friends and enjoy a leisurely stroll among the shops, restaurants, and art galleries of downtown Ste. Genevieve. During 4th Friday Art Walks, Ste. Genevieve art galleries offer visitors the opportunity to view the works of local and regional artists displaying a variety of art forms. Many
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businesses in the Historic District participate by extending their store hours from 6 to 9pm during the Fourth Friday Art Walk.Start your tour at the Welcome Center where you can view two important art collections, as well as pick up a map to the galleries. The 4th Friday Art Walk is sponsored by the Ste. Genevieve Downtown Renewal Project. Art Walks are on the fourth Friday of each month from February thru November. Check the Facebook page for Ste Genevieve Downtown Renewal Project for monthly themes. Refreshments may be served at various locations and there are five restaurants with regular evening hours in the historic district.
Shop Small Saturday (Nov)
Location: Historic Downtown Ste. Genevieve
800-373-7007
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Shop Small Saturday is a nationwide event created by American Express and sponsored locally by the Ste. Genevieve Downtown Renewal Project and The Ste. Genevieve Chamber of Commerce. This event’s purpose is to encourage sales for local small businesses. So shop local and support small business owners!
Muny Band Concerts
8:00 Thurs Evenings, June and July
Valle School Parking Lot
Ste. Genevieve, MO 63670
573-883-7097
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Ste. Genevieve’s Municipal Band performs a variety of favorites each week polkas, marches, show tunes, kids’ tunes, and popular melodies. Sit in your car or bring a lawn chair or blanket to enjoy one of the few municipal bands still around, a Ste. Genevieve tradition for over 70 years!
Spirit Reunion in Memorial Cemetery
When: 5:30 pm October 28, 2017
Where: Memorial Cemetery
Ste. Genevieve, MO 63670
800-373-7007
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The spirits will again emerge from the crypts and tombs of historic old Ste. Genevieve’s Memorial Cemetery as the Foundation for Restoration of Ste. Genevieve hosts its annual Déjà vu Spirit Reunion. Visitors will experience Missouri’s oldest town through the spirits of those buried in the town’s Memorial Cemetery. This cemetery,
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established in 1787, includes the tombs and grave markers of the area’s earliest French pioneers as well as emigrants of German, Scottish and other heritages – slave, free and integrated spouses of black African and Native Americans.
This living history program of stories, traditions and nostalgia highlights the lives and personalities of notables such as U.S. Senator Lewis F. Linn, Felix and Odile Vallé, Marie LaPorte, Joseph Bogy, Ferdinand Rozier (a one-time business partner of John James Audubon). This provides the visitor with an intimate taste of lifestyles and happenings in Missouri’s oldest town during the late 18th and 19th centuries. So tour the cemetery via lantern light and chat “face-to-face” with over 20 spirits clad in traditional dress and enjoy a hauntingly good time.
In addition, all proceeds help to benefit the Foundation for Restoration’s activities and restoration efforts. The FRSG is a non-profit community organization formed to promote the preservation and restoration of Ste. Genevieve’s historic structures and traditions. And in 2007 the FRSG was awarded the distinguished Governor’s Humanities Award for the Déjà vu Spirit Reunion program.
Jour de Fete Arts & Crafts Festival
When: Second full weekend in August
Where: Historic District, Ste. Genevieve, MO
800-373-7007
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The annual Jour de Fête is southeast Missouri’s largest outdoor Crafts Fair. Held in the heart of Ste. Genevieve’s Historic District, visitors can browse through arts and crafts booths. Shop till you drop and enjoy live music, foods, living history demonstrations and other activities at this family-friendly event.
French Veillee’
Second Weekend in June
Felix Valle State Historic Site
Merchant and Second Streets
Ste. Genevieve, MO 63670
573-883-7102Add to My Trip:
Enjoy an evening in the garden of the Felix Valle House at this recreation of a La Veillee, a traditional French Colonial summer social gathering. Featured will be French folk dancing, folk tales, candlelight tours of the home, and refreshments.
Ecole du Soldat
When: Please see the Events Calendar for specifics
Where: Historic District
Ste. Genevieve, MO 63670
800-373-7007
573-883-7097Add to My Trip:
A family-friendly, living history event! Come explore the traditions of the “School of the Soldier.” This is a fully packed weekend of lectures and camaraderie with plenty of events to see.
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On Saturday, attend a public heritage auction of discovered ‘desirables’ – memorabilia, collectibles, ‘accouterments’, utensils, and ‘watch’a-may-call-its’. In addition, Ste Genevieve has the greatest concentration of original French colonial buildings in North America. Plus is the only surviving French colonial village in the United States. At Ecole du Soldat activities of that early era are reenacted.
