It houses over 70 large-scale outdoor sculptures and features a 1.4-mile (2.3 km) walking trail,[2] an indoor gallery, the Aronson Art Center, and educational programs.

[7] The first unit of the Sutton parcel that became Laumeier Sculpture Park was a tract of 47.67 acres on Rott Road owned by Joseph Griesedieck, the owner of Falstaff Brewing and president of Vahlaus Realty.

In September 1916, Griesedieck sold the tract through Valhaus Realty Co. to Roland L. Kahle, a department manager of the Rigen Stove Company.

The mainstay of his practice was brewery architecture, and his characteristic style for residential buildings has been called “Brewer’s Baronial.” Between 1894 and 1911, Janssen designed more than a dozen St. Louis houses, as well as the Grand Boulevard entrance pillars to the Compton Heights subdivision in the City of St. Louis, and the 12,000 square-foot “Magic Chef Mansion,” built in 1908 for American Stove Company co-founder Charles Stockstrom.

Laumeier married Matilda Cramer in 1941 and recommenced construction to restore and modify the house, including glazing the large south porch and expanding the estate.

She favored uses that would maintain the general character of the landscape, possibly with such features as a formal garden, a conservatory building, and plantings compatible with the specimen trees she and her husband had placed in the broad lawns and meadows.

Upon her death in 1968, Matilda bequeathed the grounds and buildings, including the seven-room estate house, to the St. Louis County Department of Parks and Recreation in memory of her husband, Henry Laumeier.

[4][14] The founding executive director of Laumeier Sculpture Park, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization, was Dr. Beej Nierengarten-Smith, whose tenure lasted 22 years from 1979 to 2001.

A variety of national and international sculptors were featured, including Terry Allen, Manuel Neri, Andy Goldsworthy, Judith Shea, and Joyce J. Scott.

[20] Today, Laumeier is an internationally recognized, nonprofit arts organization accredited by the American Alliance of Museums (AAM).

[22] The 1917 estate house now functions as the Kranzberg Educational Lab, providing classrooms, presentation spaces, and staff offices for mission-driven programming and organizational sustainability.

Among the 105 acres of Laumeier Sculpture Park are 70+ large-scale outdoor sculptures, including works by notable artists such as Alexander Liberman, Mark di Suvero, Mary Miss, Dan Graham, Beverly Pepper, Jackie Ferrara, Vito Acconci, Donald Judd, and Niki de Saint Phalle, among many others in the Collection.

[24] The park website describes the sculpture as a modernist work, "meant to represent the awe-inspiring impact of classical Greek temples and mammoth Gothic-style cathedrals" and modeled on post and lintel architecture.