Heyyyy I just went to City Museum in St. Louis last summer! It was awesome! And I live in Honolulu--so if I vacationed in St Louis, that's a pretty big endorsement, right?
Isn’t City Museum crazy? So very interesting..
The guy who started it, Bob Cassily, was my neighbor. He was part of the hard-core architecture salvagers who took pieces of buildings when they couldn’t be saved anymore. He’s well known for so many antics. So many! He and his wife-of- the-time Were artists. He worked with cement and big materials and made big pieces.
When you drive around my neighborhood, Lafayette Square, you will see items cast in his studio and attached to our Victorian houses. He Is well known for just forging ahead and making public pieces of sculpture without getting permission from the city or landowners, although he always did it on publicly owned property. One time he threw his body over a distinct piece of architecture that was slated to be torn down and he didn’t move for days. This eventually came down but it was drama for a while.
He started up City Museum as a place to show off architectural treasures and you can see what happened to it…now a fun place for families.
He died in an accident when his bulldozer turned over as he was building his new place called “cement land. “
As usual with Bob, there is drama surrounding his death because his now wife claims he was murdered and there’s big fighting over his estate and etc. His wife number two still lives in our neighborhood and wrote an autobiography. She was a former nun when she married Bob, and after their divorce has come out as a gay woman.
Quite a colorful family.
