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How can a home so full of achievement and enterprise, comfort and prosperity, so full of

life, know so much sorrow, decline, so much death.

How could a family that literally wanted for nothing find itself surrounded by anguish time after time.

There are stories of those who have risen to fame and fortune, only to fall from the good

grace of wealth, those who had it all and lost it.

And then there's the limes.

St Louis was kind to the beer brewing German immigrant family in the 19th century. Business was

kind to them. Success was kind. Fate was not. The family that built an empire on German logger repeatedly triumphed over competition,

but couldn't escape the demons within.

A storm of personal depression, political posturings, and tragic suicides caused the

empire to crumble.

And the silent witness to it all is the opulent residence which still stands today at

3322 Damanil Place on St. Louis's South Side.

Beautifully restored. The Limp Mansion is still full of original fixtures, artwork, furniture,

and according to some people, remnants have bygone activity.

Shadows move in empty halls.

Voices whisper on recordings of silence.

items are moved when no one's around.

The heaviness of someone else's presence hangs in vacant rooms, and faces appear in windows and mirrors when the home is empty.

The mansion is open to the public as a restaurant and inn.

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