The community also held a number of names and nicknames during the centuries, including: Delor's Village, Catalan's Prairie, Louisbourg, Vide Poche, and Sugarloaf.

[3] Carondelet was founded in 1767 by Clément Delor de Treget who was born in Cahors, Quercy in southern France.

It is said that shortly after the territory passed from French to Spanish hands, Treget wished to have his commission as captain of the militia renewed.

The St. Louis visitor would return home with emptied pockets - it is possible that the Carondelet men may have had fleeter horses or they may have been more skillful card players.

When a St. Louisan was asked to visit Carondelet on Sunday afternoon, he would reply, "A quoi sert, c'est un vide poche."

"[3] An in-depth study of several instances of Vide Poche in North America shed light on the complex history of this place name.

The affiliation began in the 1840s with the production of lead shot shipped in via the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway.

Susan Blow founded the first continuous, publicly funded kindergarten in the United States, at Carondolet's Des Peres School in 1873.

[8] During the American Civil War, 32 ironclad gunboats for the Union Army and Navy were produced at the James Buchanan Eads-owned Union Marine Works shipyards, including four of the initial City class ironclads: St. Louis, Carondelet, Pittsburgh, and Louisville.

In 1876 Provident Chemical Works became a world leader in the production of phosphates from its Carondelet Plant in a process that initially involved lead.

Housing in the area ranges from modest single-story cottages to apartment buildings, to larger single-family homes.