In this neighborhood, there were 11 stores, three wagon shops, four churches, four schools (one public, two Catholic, and one Lutheran), as well as a post office, known to locals as "the Baden Station".

A number of historic churches, most of them originally Germanic background, anchor the Baden neighborhood and still operate.

Cemetery, an historic non-sectarian burial ground dating from 1859 (originally owned by the Friedens German Evangelical and Reformed Church at 19th and Newhouse in the city's Hyde Park neighborhood) and frequently patronized by German-American and African-American Protestant funerals, is located at North Broadway and Jennings Station Road.

The original Old Bethlehem Lutheran Cemetery, on Church Road behind the Holy Cross Catholic Parish, was closed in 1949 and relocated to the New Bethlehem Cemetery, four miles north on Bellefontaine Road in the North St. Louis County suburb of Bellefontaine Neighbors, which still operates today, offering interment space to patrons of all faiths, but primarily the German-American Lutheran and African-American Protestant communities.

Many of the original landowners of the "Halls Ferry Circle" area of Baden are buried in this historic cemetery, along with John and Casper Beiderwieden, first Lutheran funeral home operators in the City of St. Louis, and Emil Heintzenroeder, who operated a funeral home in Baden on Halls Ferry Road that served all residents until the 1970s.

The regionally-historic Calvary (Roman Catholic, 1854) and Bellefontaine Cemeteries (1849), located immediately south of the Wabash railroad tracks and overpass on North Broadway, abut the informal southern boundaries of the Baden Historic District.

Single family homes predominate in the Baden area, especially in the newer sections "on the hill" and westward toward Riverview Boulevard and in the Veronica Park neighborhood.

Flats are found on streets such as Bitner and Church Road near the business district at Halls Ferry and Broadway.

In the early years Baden's water supply was obtained from wells and cisterns; the first pumping station was installed about 1830.

The third pumping station, in Baden in 1898, was high service and was on a conduit line from Chain of Rocks to Bissell's Point.

Efforts by the Baden public school groups resulted in the establishment of a branch library in an old mounted police station at 8316 North Broadway in 1928.

For many years the grounds of the Baden pumping station were landscaped by the City Water Division as a local garden spot.

Chain of Rocks Park, with its picnic grounds and views of the river from hillside roadways, was acquired by the Water Division in 1893.

Baden's first engine house was built about 1897 just north of the location of the present fire station, which was erected in 1909.

The greatest fire to occur in the area happened when the St. Louis Car Company shops burned for several days in October 1920.

The business section along Broadway and Hall Ferry Road had its origin more than a century ago and its own post office, fire station, library, and schools have served the area for many years.

The St. Louis Car Company occupied its 52-acre (210,000 m2) site in 1898 after moving from 3300 North Broadway and in 1899 Paulus Gast opened his brewery on Hornsby Avenue.

Near its end at Riverview Drive are the Missouri Portland Cement Company and the GAF Corporation, a manufacturer of building products.

Earliest form of public transit serving the Baden area was a line of horse-drawn omnibuses, which ran down Broadway to East Grand Avenue.

A similar line ran on Broadway from Third and Market Street to Breman, beginning in 1845, operated by Erastus Wells and Calvin Case.

Originally, it ran from Second and North Market Street in St. Louis to the bank of Missouri River opposite St. Charles.

A regular commuter train to St. Charles, Burlington-Northern tracks through the Hall Street area east of Baden.