Jefferson Barracks Telephone Museum - Lemay, MO
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YoSam.
N 38° 30.386 W 090° 16.884
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A few of the building, once part of the military base, now given to St. Louis County Parks, have been turned into museums.
Waymark Code: WM14W3N
Location: Missouri, United States
Date Posted: 08/30/2021
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County of museum: St. Louis County
Location of museum: Hancock Ave., just E. of Gregg Rd., Jefferson Barracks, Lemay
Phone: (314) 416-8004
"The Jefferson Barracks Telephone Museum is housed in a beautifully restored 1896 building and features an extensive collection of telephones, telephone-related equipment and memorabilia. The building is on the National Register of Historic Places and is located in the 426-acre historic Jefferson Barracks Park, a 15 minute drive south of downtown St. Louis.
"Members of the Telecom Pioneers, a non-profit 501(c)(3) telephone company employee service organization, and their families and friends spent over 66,500 hours in repairing and renovating the building.
"Besides its extensive collection of telephones manufactured from the 1900s through 2000s, the Jefferson Barracks Telephone Museum also contains:
• A Central Office Step Switch.
• Operator switchboards from the 1920s and 1960s.
• Military telephones from WWI through the Gulf War.
• Hundreds of pieces of telephone-related equipment and tools.
• A telephone pole complete with climbing equipment.
• Hundreds of pieces of telephone-related memorabilia from the 1880s through the 2000s.
• A large variety of novelty telephones.
• A statue of Alexander Graham Bell and replicas of his 1876 Liquid Transmitter and 1877 First Commercial Telephone." ~ Jefferson Barracks Telephone Museum