The Bevo Mill area is direct to the west of the neighborhood of Dutchtown, which was a major center of German settlement in St. Louis in the mid-nineteenth century.

After significant population loss in the later twentieth century, the neighborhood was revitalized in the 1990s by immigrants fleeing war in Bosnia and Croatia.

[5] The neighborhood was named after the Bevo Mill, a distinctive restaurant with a windmill and beer hall at Gravois and Morganford roads.

The restaurant was opened by August Busch Sr. in 1917 who wished to recreate a European beer garden where drinks would be served in an outdoor atmosphere of music and dancing, like a country club in the City.

Busch toured Holland for a year prior to the mill´s erection, seeking authentic artifacts and studying Dutch windmills.