Morgan Street Brewery was founded in St. Louis, Missouri in 1995 by Steve Owings and Dennis Harper. Owings had worked for Harper’s restaurant Harpo’s in Columbia, Mo. While a student at the University of Missouri-Columbia. In the early 1980s, he opened a Harpo’s on the Landing with Harper, which has since closed. Owings and Harper had no prior brewery experience and credit trips to microbreweries when the industry was taking off in the 1980s for Morgan Street’s inception. They’d visited small breweries in Colorado and immediately saw an opportunity to bring a similar concept to St. Their current facility originally was a shuttered diner that had a kitchen and was move-in ready. The property that now houses Morgan Street’s brewery, restaurant and hospitality venue was built more than a century ago as a manufacturing facility for Schoelhorn-Albrecht, where riverboat capstans – revolving cylinders for winding rope – were once made. Please feel free to ask any questions or to request more photos. The beer tap stand featured in the listings pictures does not come with the beer tap handle. Thank you to the amazing beer tap handle blog for wonderful insights.