Tour of the Taille de Noyer Home 11:30

COST: $5 per person
Last went: 2023
Will go again: 2033

If needed, we will add additional tours.

Directions at bottom! The house is located on the grounds of the McCluer High School. If you have google earth, you may want to check it first. The house is just north and a little west of the tennis courts, so look for the tennis courts!

We will have a docent-led tour of the 3-story Taille de Noyer home.

"Taille de Noyer is an historic antebellum home with stately pillars across the front veranda and is believed to be one of the oldest remaining homes in St. Louis County. The oldest section, a two-room log cabin used as a fur trading post, dates back to 1790.

"It was built by a French trader in a 350 acre walnut grove on the end of the Commons of Florissant. Through the years, its occupants saw the countryside change from wilderness to the well populated city of Florissant.

"Taille de Noyer is a last reminder of the country life of the early nineteenth century. The original cabin was given by Mullanphy to his daughter, Jane, and her husband, Charles Chambers, in 1817, to lure them back from New York after their marriage. They bagan expanding the house in 1819 and took up residence in 1820. Thier house, a bit more pretentious than the original cabin, was furnished almost completely with family heirlooms.

The Chambers had 17 children, and Taille de Noyer grew with the family until it became a stately mansion of 22 rooms, each with beautiful fireplaces of brick probably made at the site. Another major addition was a summer kitchen near the main house, a favorite gathering place for the Chambers’ sons.

One hundred and forty years of continuous occupancy by heirs of John Mullanphy ended late in 1960 when the property was acquired by the Ferguson-Florissant School District for expansion of McCluer High School. While the summer kitchen and terrace of hand-made brick were sacrificed, the Florissant Historical Society arranged for preservation of the historic home and raised funds to move the structure 200 yards to a new location." from http://florissantoldtown.com/links/florissant-valley-historical-society-taille-de-noyer/

If you are on New Florissant Road, you want to head south away from I-270. Looks to me like there is a small road called Taille de Noyer (don't know if it is marked). You'll take a left onto this road (and into the school). (If you get to Wadsworth Dr. you've gone too far). Then it looks like you'll want to take the first right (this will all be parking lots - so no street signs). This will wind you around to a parking lot in front of the house (and tennis courts).