History

The Adlyne Freund Center was originally built as a hunting cabin by David P. Wohl, owner of the Wohl Shoe Company. Using stone quarried and oak logs cut from the property, the lodge was completed in 1932. The Freund is the only building original to the DBOC property.

This reconstructed barn was originally located on a farm. The front porch posts were constructed from cedar that was removed during the glade restoration project at Shaw Nature Reserve. The cypress wood porch flooring came from ammunition tanks in Louisville, Kentucky. The exterior door was made from Norway spruce trees removed from the wetland at Shaw Nature Reserve. The fireplace is sandstone and the mantel stone (or lintel) is one large stone—all were hand-cut and came from West Virginia. The flooring was constructed out of old school bleachers. The cabinets in the kitchen and office areas and the staircase rails were made from oak trees that were dead or blown down at the Reserve. The staircase was constructed with lumber reclaimed from an old house. The bricks in the entrance patio were salvaged from the Polar Ice Company in St. Louis.

Original location: Southeast of New Haven, 30 miles west of Gray Summit.

The front porch posts and the beams above the porches were made from cedar trees harvested during the Shaw Nature Reserve glade restoration. The porch flooring and the windows were constructed out of cypress wood from ammunition tanks in Louisville, Kentucky, circa early 1900s. The front and upstairs fireplaces, their mantels, and all the beams are originals. The flooring had been old shelving obtained from the Rexall Drug Store located in St. Louis. The doors were made from white pine from old buildings in St. Louis. The brick walkway outside the lodge was from the Polar Ice Company in St. Louis.

Date: Circa 1820

Original location: Near Westphalia, southeast of Jefferson City

The Lee Lodge and Casa Audlon Lodge came from the same property. A German immigrant, Breckenkamp, built the buildings. The family lived on the homestead until the last member of the family passed away in 1995. The original workmanship on the Lee Lodge has been described as “phenomenal.” The walnut front doors and doorjambs are original from the time of the Breckenkamps. The cedar porch railings and posts were from the glade restoration project at Shaw Nature Reserve. The cypress flooring was from ammunition tanks in Louisville, Kentucky.

Date: Circa 1850s or 1860s

Original location: Southeast of New Haven, 30 miles west of Gray Summit.

The posts on the front porch and the beams above the porch were made from cedar trees cut during the Shaw Nature Reserve glade restoration project. The porch flooring and the windows were constructed out of cypress wood from ammunition tanks in Louisville, Kentucky, circa early 1900s. All of the inside doors came from white pine that was reclaimed from old buildings in St. Louis. The interior flooring was shelving that came from the Rexall Drug Warehouse in St. Louis. The bricks for the walkway outside the lodge were salvaged from Polar Ice Company in St. Louis.

Date: Circa 1860

Original location: Southwest of Union

Casa Audlon Lodge was the Breckenkamp Family barn. This barn was a large size not normally seen in Missouri. The porch is constructed of cedar flooring and railings milled from trees taken down during the Shaw Nature Reserve glade restoration project. The siding is reclaimed redwood from a water tank. Designed in the Rumsford style, the fireplace has a narrow and shallow firebox and angles to reflect the heat back in to the room. The floor joists are oak replica that had to be added because there was no second floor in the barn; the upstairs was actually a hayloft.

Date: Circa 1850s or 1860s

Original location: Southeast of New Haven, 30 miles west of Gray Summit.