Community Corner
Looking Back on Ballwin: Rebuilding Blinne's Store
In honor of Ballwinites everywhere working hard on a Monday, Ballwin-Ellisville Patch looks at a scene of workers at a prominent former business captured a century ago.
It was almost exactly 100 ago that a popular store owned by Edward Blinne burned, prompting its reconstruction a year later in 1913 through the help of European immigrants specializing in trades like carpentry and bricklaying, local historian David Fiedler wrote.
In addition to his work in the business community, Edward Blinne was elected to three terms as justice of the peace of Bonhomme Township. He ran the store until his death in 1949.
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