Andy Busch Mansion

If you live in St. Louis you are familiar with the Busch family dynasty. From their lavish homes to their state-of-the-art farm with their prized Clydesdales, they are well known in the area of Affton Missouri.

In 1993 Andy Busch and his wife Kim sought to have a house built just down the road from the famous Grant Farm. This was to be a 10,000-square-foot manse, now a manse is usually a home for a pastor of a church but this manse was for the Busch family to stay close to their beloved Grant Farm.

The home features many works of art on the walls and different native sceneries by local muralist Peter Engelsmann who has plastered the City of St. Louis in his magnificent painted landscapes. After talking to Peter he said these were his first ever commissioned works in 1995. He had done some other exotic animal murals for a nonprofit at the time when the Busch family saw and approached him to do something similar in their home. Engelsmann said the exotic landscapes were in line with the animals he saw on the property, including emus, driving to the house every day for three months. Here is a link to before and after photos of the murals he did in the home.

The house was abandoned in 2009, and historic aerial images of the property show just how quickly the home and land were engulfed in foliage. The house was broken into, covered in black mold and with the Busch family still owning the land, with no rush to sell it the property fell more and more into disrepair.

Plans for what would be called Grantwood Village neighborhood was to annex about 100 acres in that area and the site of the Andy Busch Mansion into a housing development. It had a few years earlier been the subject of zoning controversy but this time the housing development seemed to win. The house was demolished in 2013, not even 20 years after being built to make way for the new neighborhood.

Gallery Below of Andy Busch Mansion

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