Planter's House Hotel

Maury had intentions of expanding the hotel, but instead another Planter's House was erected on Fourth Street bounded by Chestnut and Pine.

In 1836, a group of prominent St. Louisans gathered to discuss building the grandest and largest hotel in the city.

Some notable residents of the hotel were Jefferson Davis, Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Jackson, U.S. Grant, and William F. Cody.

"[4] In March 1847, Henry Clay visited St. Louis and stayed at the Planter's House.

[5] A meeting that ultimately kept Missouri in the Union during the Civil War occurred at the Planter's House Hotel on June 11, 1861.

Claiborne Jackson and Gen. Sterling Price, representing secession, met with Col. Nathaniel Lyon and Frank Blair.

Lyon rejected a proposal to partition the state, resulting in a series of battles in Missouri at Boonville, Lexington, Carthage, and finally Wilson Creek, near Springfield.

A new, grander, Planter's House Hotel was to be built to replace the fire-damaged building.

After the city lost the bid for the fair, the group offered a one-million-dollar bonus to the organization or individual who would build a first-class, fireproof hotel in St. Louis.

Investors in the project chose a site at Fourth and Pine Street and hired Isaac Taylor to design the hotel.