Eugene Field House & St Louis

Eugene Field House & St Louis Toy Museum can be found at S Broadway 634. The following is offered: Theater. The entry is present with us since Sep 9, 2010 and was last updated on Nov 14, 2013. In Saint Louis there are 12 other Theater. An overview can be found here.

This house was Eugene's boyhood home, and during their residence here his father Roswell M. Field served as the Attorney who took Dred Scott's freedom suit into the Federal Courts, leading to the infamous Supreme Court decision in Scott v. Sandford. The House is owned and operated as a museum by the Eugene Field House Foundation, a charitable organization.

The first historic museum in St. Louis and the boyhood home of Eugene Field, The Eugene Field House & St. Louis Toy Museum packs a historical punch. Eugene's father Roswell M. Field was the attorney who defended Dred Scott in that groundbreaking fight for Scott's freedom. The relics found in the Field home are reminiscent of a time when joys and pains marked the plight of the Midwest. The toy...

The Mission Of The Eugene Field House FoundationThe Trustees have as their mission the preservation, maintenance, interpretation, and promotion of The Eugene Field House and St. Louis Toy Museum as an historic property and museum, with four objectives.-- To inform the general public about the life, works, and times of Eugene Field, the "Children's Poet," and the creator of the personal column...