“While I love traveling the globe,” says Kamra, “it’s lovely to come home to this house that my husband and I have put so much love and energy into making our own.”
Wealthy St. Louis industrialist and inventor George Fox Steedman and his wife, Carrie Robb Howard, donated their personal collection of 600 books to the library, along with funds to purchase additional titles and construct a special room to house them.
After she was discouraged by her college’s focus on conceptual art, Coalier went into artistic hibernation. Years later, when her youngest son “was old enough to not eat paint,” she started painting again.