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

The University of Missouri, located in Columbia, was the first public university west of the Mississippi River. It was founded in 1839 and has a long history of academic and athletic excellence.