File ID	f137p0744
Date.Digital	2003-04-13
Date.Original	1904-1912
Description	This two-and-a-half story Italian Renaissance Revival mansion was built about 1898 by Baron Barnes and his wife Eva Salisbury Barnes on former farmland on the south side of Bonhomme Road, now Delmar Boulevard. Barnes was a well-known St. Louis grain merchant. Sometime after Barnes' death in 1899, the mansion was sold to Jackson and Minnie Johnson. Its proximity to land purchased by Edward Gardner Lewis in 1902 for his new publishing headquarters may have influenced the design of the Woman's Magazine Building and his real estate development. Lewis included photographs of the mansion in many of his promotional materials. Johnson, president of Roberts Johnson Rand Shoe Company, was a strong supporter of University City's incorporation and became one of the first aldermen.
Source	Photograph, warped, causing distortion in scanning, surface damage upper corners, tear upper right edge, 8.65" by 6.68"
Subject	University City (Mo.)--Pictorial Works
Subject	Barnes, Baron S.
Subject.Keyword	Houses--Missouri--University City
Title	Barnes/Johnson house on Delmar Boulevard