a little history: Faust Park is home to an original carousel created by the Dentzel Company of Philadelphia in the 1920’s. The Carousel was installed in 1929 at the Forest Park Highlands. When the Highlands burned to the ground in 1963, the carousel was the only thing left standing. Howard C. Ohlendorf purchased the carousel to prevent it from being dismantled and donated it to St. Louis County Parks in 1965. The department operated it during the summer months at Sylvan Spring Park until 1980. The St. Louis County Historic Buildings Commission and Faust Cultural Heritage Foundation raised enough money to restore the carousel to its original beauty and installed it in a climate controlled building in Faust Park in 1987.
my humble opinion: it is so beautiful! my niece and nephew, Britanie and TJ loved going to visit the Carousel with my mom (aka Nana) so I wanted to make sure to introduce the carousel to Lilly on her birthday! And at only a mere dollar to ride - who wouldn't want to enjoy this St. Louis treasure?
She really did well on it! She was very interested in all the surroundings and held on the pole like any big girl would have done!
She was very intrigued by Grandma's horse and smiled a lot.
We thought she might like to ride it a second time in the carriage. Not really.... She would have preferred her own horse, but she was sweet enough to oblige us this one time.
After her two rides, she watched a group of bigger kids on it. 
and seemed pretty interested in all of her surroundings! 
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