There are plans to convert Chuck Berry’s one-time home into a museum, with a section of St Louis also to be renamed the Chuck Berry Cultural District to “foster connections to our City’s cultural and music heritage.”
Berry composed ‘Roll Over Beethoven’, ‘Sweet Little Sixteen’, and ‘Johnny B. Goode’ in the house, which is situated in a neighbourhood known as The Greater Ville.
The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2008. “Many of my favorite songs came about while in that house,” Berry noted at the time. It is currently owned by the City of St. Louis, although it has seen better days.
The plan is for the museum and surrounding Cultural District to shine a light onto a section of the city that was quite progressive during the ’50s, being one of the few segregated neighbourhoods in St. Louis at the time.
