2635 Locust Street

Historical marker location:

2635 Locust Street, Saint Louis, Missouri

( Marker is on Locust Street, 0.1 miles west of Jefferson Avenue, on the right when traveling west.)

Marker installed: 1998

birthplace and boyhood home of T.S. Eliot. 1888-1965

Missouri was admitted to the Union as the 24th state on August 10, 1821, becoming the first state entirely west of the Mississippi River.