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Roy's
Mill or Tower
Block 16A

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Old Spanish Fort, later Roy's Mill, Riverfront at foot of Biddle Street,
Steamer Wyoming at river bank. Daguerreotype by Thomas M. Easterly, ca. 1850.
Courtesy of Missouri Historical Society

[Block 16B]

This windmill was for many years the northern limit of the town of St. Louis. It was owned by Jean Baptiste Roy and was photographed prior to its demolition in the 1860s.

This early photograph of Roy's Tower was taken about 1850 by Thomas Easterly.

From "St. Louis, the Fourth City, 1764-1909" by Walter B. Stevens, St. Louis, Missouri: S.J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1909.

 

 

The northernmost limits of St. Louis were marked by Jean Baptiste Roy's stone windmill in 1804. This view, taken looking eastward, shows the area of the windmill as it looks today. The Martin Luther King, Jr. Bridge soars above, while in the background the gleaming sides of the silver Admiral Excursion Boat, built in 1940, houses a casino operation.








Another view of the site of the Roy Windmill.