Butterfly House

Prior to me leaving for a few weeks for work, we decided to visit the Butterfly House which is located half an hour outside of St. Louis.

Once we arrived at Faust Park in Chesterfield, we first visited the St. Louis Carousel that we had heard about.  It is an original carousel created by the Dentzel Company of Philadelphia in the 1920's.  It was installed in 1929 at the Forest Park Highlands which burned to the ground in 1963.  The carousel was the only thing left standing.  A local man then purchased the carousel and donated it to St. Louis County Parks in 1965 to prevent it from being dismantled.  Money was raised to restore the carousel to its original beauty and installed it in a climate controlled building in Faust Park in 1987. 

View of the Butterfly House when you enter Faust Park.

A local artist created a few sculptures for the grounds surrounding the Butterfly House.  The butterfly itself was my favorite, and the most impressive of all of them.

Benches in the gardens.

I have always loved the black and white butterflies!

This is the much smaller butterfly house than the one located in Houston, but it is still nice.  It was opened on September 18, 1998.  The 8,000 square foot Conservatory Garden is made out of 646 pieces of glass, each weighing approximately 200 pounds.  It is a division of the Missouri Botantical Garden.

Tony was irritated because the butterflies weren't staying still long enough for him to take pictures, so he found one that was dead and decided to pose it.  He took like 20 pictures of the poor, dead butterfly!  Once he was done, he left it resting peacefully on the leaf.  I wonder how many people photographed the dead butterfly throughout the day!