I went to the Chatillon-DeMenil House for Bastille Day 2019 as it looked like the best celebration of french culture in Saint Louis. I was quite charmed by the house and especially the tour guide.
On Bastille Day, the ticket price was $12, but it included french dancing, storming the Bastille, plus the mock decapitation of Marie Antoinette and King Louis XVI.
The House Tour was excellent, and interesting, not to mention historical and educational. Well worth the money mostly due to the humorous delivery and knowledge of the tour guide.
The restrooms are nice, and located in the new carriage house; street parking is easy to find and free. I missed the gift shop... read full review
March 2018
We booked the Carriage House and Mansion for our Oct 20th, 2018 wedding reception. Our check was cashed, and a couple weeks later we received an email from Curtis informing us they can no longer uphold our reservation for our reception due to renovations and changes to the property that will be going on at that time. Now, almost every place we looked at prior to booking the DeMenil is already booked. If renovations were being planned for nearly seven months down the road, I don't understand why we were not informed that the venue would be unavailable so our limited time to book a venue would not have been wasted.
November 2017
We recently used the DeMenil Carriage House and grounds for our wedding reception. Andrew was extremely helpful and attentive throughout the process of planning our wedding and he helped to ensure the evening’s plans were as seamless as possible. We choose this venue because it did not need to be dressed a lot to be a great looking space—the grounds themselves had so much natural beauty and we wanted to take full advantage of that. We knew when we reserved the space that all of the décor had to set up by either the caterer or by ourselves which was an easy trade off for us to make—we did however, provide additional lighting which ended up being a good decision.... read full review
I went to the Chatillon-DeMenil House for Bastille Day 2019 as it looked like the best celebration of french culture in Saint Louis. I was quite charmed by the house and especially the tour guide. On Bastille Day, the ticket price was $12, but it included french dancing, storming the Bastille, plus the mock decapitation of Marie Antoinette and King Louis XVI. The House Tour was excellent, and interesting, not to mention historical and educational. Well worth the money mostly due to the humorous delivery and knowledge of the tour guide. The restrooms are nice, and located in the new carriage house; street parking is easy to find and free. I missed the gift shop... read full review
We booked the Carriage House and Mansion for our Oct 20th, 2018 wedding reception. Our check was cashed, and a couple weeks later we received an email from Curtis informing us they can no longer uphold our reservation for our reception due to renovations and changes to the property that will be going on at that time. Now, almost every place we looked at prior to booking the DeMenil is already booked. If renovations were being planned for nearly seven months down the road, I don't understand why we were not informed that the venue would be unavailable so our limited time to book a venue would not have been wasted.
We recently used the DeMenil Carriage House and grounds for our wedding reception. Andrew was extremely helpful and attentive throughout the process of planning our wedding and he helped to ensure the evening’s plans were as seamless as possible. We choose this venue because it did not need to be dressed a lot to be a great looking space—the grounds themselves had so much natural beauty and we wanted to take full advantage of that. We knew when we reserved the space that all of the décor had to set up by either the caterer or by ourselves which was an easy trade off for us to make—we did however, provide additional lighting which ended up being a good decision.... read full review