Christian Naffziger is a researcher in the St. Louis archives of the Recorder of Deeds. For the last fifteen years, he has turned his scholarly research to the study of the history and built environment of the city of St. Louis, Missouri and the Midwest, with a particular interest in the development of the German American brewing industry in the Nineteenth Century. His work has been published throughout America and Europe. Recently, he has been exploring the history of the Lemp Brewery, and its foundation in the 19th Century.