Ste. Genevieve Clerks: City Hall vs County Clerk

Thomas Garner
Aug 19
12 min read

Updated: Aug 21

Valle House east gallery, Ste. Genevieve

Ste. Genevieve sits about sixty miles and one hour south of St. Louis via I-55. It is a Ste. Genevieve County river town beside Ste. Genevieve National Historical Park, census 4,999, not downtown St. Louis. City hall answers at from 165 South Fourth Street. Genevieve County Clerk answers at, extension 2, from 55 South Third Street, Room 2. The park answers at. That last line is a visitor desk, not a permit shop.

The published year stays on this cell. Ste. Genevieve is $15,405 on 38 listings, ADR $161, occupancy 30.6 percent, RevPAR $49, vintage August 2025 through July 2026. Peak months are October, May, and November. January is the hole. Year over year is minus 3.2 percent. Label Farmington and Perryville. Do not mash those offices. Do not file Farmington paper on this driveway. Certificate of Appropriateness is the city file on a historic-district parcel.

The first question is which city hall covers the parcel. City of Ste. Genevieve and Ste. Genevieve County are two separate offices on the same river map. The National Park Service is a third voice and not a permit shop. Farmington is a fourth desk you do not call from this town. A listing that says river house near St. Louis has not named a clerk. Pull the parcel first. I-55 does not assign the hall.

City Hall Sits at 165 South Fourth

The first question is not which park path the guest will walk. The first question is which city hall covers the parcel. City of Ste. Genevieve and Ste. Genevieve County are two separate offices on the same river map. The National Park Service is a third voice and not a permit shop. Farmington is a fourth desk you do not call from this cell. A listing that says river house near St. Louis has not named a clerk. Pull the parcel first.

I-55 runs the hour. It does not assign the hall. The park sits on federal land and on the town's visitor landscape. City hall sits at 165 South Fourth. The county clerk sits at 55 South Third, Room 2. Guests can drive St. Louis and this cell in a morning. The clerk cannot.The festival filekeeps August off the extract year. The call sheet keeps the desks apart on the phone. Farmington is an inland county seat. It does not inherit this CoA file.

If the address is ambiguous, stop advertising. Call the city or the county that matches the tax map and ask which desk owns the parcel in 2026. Do not ask Ste. Genevieve hall to speak for Farmington. Genevieve County to bless a St. Louis mash. Do not ask the park desk to bless a short-term use. The town is modest. The hall is specific. 38 listings do not make the map optional. Read the map, then dial the phone that matches it. A park itinerary is not a tax map. The driveway has one clerk on this cell, and only one.

How to reach City Hall

City of Ste. Genevieve hall is at 165 South Fourth Street, Ste. Genevieve, MO 63670-1605. Pam Meyer is the city clerk. Hours are Monday through Friday, eight to five. This is the city desk in a French colonial river town, not St. Louis hall and not the Farmington seat. That line matters for which packet you carry and which remittance path you confirm. Certificate of Appropriateness applies to exterior work in the National Register Historic District. Applications go to the Heritage Commission at the same hall. Start here.

There is a published Ste. Genevieve year. It is $15,405 on 38 listings. Do not quote Farmington $20,290 as this hall's year. Do not quote Perryville $17,031. The park is a walk hook. It is not a license.The market extractalready records the cell. The clerk file records the address. Hours are eight to five on weekdays. Walk in with the parcel, not with a St. Louis mash. Pam Meyer sits on that hall. confirm extension. Start with her line.

Ask the hall whether the parcel sits inside the city, whether it sits inside the historic district, what remittance path 2026 still requires, and whether live CoA triggers still match the 185-foot Landmark file you printed. Bring the parcel, the site plan if you have it, and the platform URL you intend to run. Leave Maryland Heights out of the zoning question. This hall answers for Ste. Genevieve. Confirm remittance separately. Tax is not occupancy. A Saturday park walk does not rewrite the city line. Four-guest houses are the extract size. That size is not a city license.

County Clerk Sits at 55 South Third

The city phone is. That is the number on 165 South Fourth. Start there for Certificate of Appropriateness, historic-district identity, and the Heritage Commission that takes exterior work. City PDF language names work within 185 feet of a Landmark and applications due the second Monday of each month. Confirm every line at the counter in 2026. Do not invent a city short-term cap. A dedicated short-term ordinance was not confirmed on a primary page this pass. Flag that unknown. Do not mint a fee to fill it.

Do not invent a second city number because a broker memo says Heritage. This pass locked and a city-clerk extension 1104 from a thin contact page. confirm extension. the hall. Pam Meyer answers that building. Use the main line. Confirm 2026 on that call.Startup costskeep an invented permit fee off the furnish fantasy. This section keeps the phone in view.

Ask whether the parcel is inside the historic district, whether the 185-foot trigger still applies, and what the live CoA calendar actually says. Bring the parcel inside this city, not a Farmington card you hope the river town will cover. If the driveway is outside city limits, hang up and call the county. If the driveway is Farmington, that is a different desk. The two towns do not share this clerk. Remittance is still not occupancy, and occupancy is still not the clerk. Do not ask this number to issue a cap the city has not published. 38 listings still start on this phone, not on a Farmington line.

County Is

Ste. Genevieve County Clerk sits at 55 South Third Street, Room 2, Ste. Genevieve, MO 63670. The phone is, extension 2. Sue Wolk is the clerk. This is the County market, not the city desk and not an NPS permit shop. County records live here. The city CoA file does not. Certificate of Appropriateness is a city Heritage Commission path. It does not travel to every Ste. Genevieve County driveway just because the park is in the county.

The county seat is this town. The county is not a spare St. Louis clerk. Do not carry Farmington short-term paper into Room 2 and hope the county will cover a Third Street house. Do not carry a St. Louis mash and hope the county seat will bless it. Perryville $17,031 is a labeled neighbor year,, on the same vintage. It is not this permit.The buyer packetalready warns that two halls travel with the deed. This section keeps the county phone in view. Sue Wolk sits on that room.

Ask whether the parcel is city or unincorporated county land, what 2026 remittance looks like, and which other County market, if any, still touches a lodging stay. Bring the parcel inside this county, not a Maryland Heights card a vendor scrape named. Festus is a 404. Do not invent a Festus year. If the driveway is inside Ste. Genevieve city, you still start at for CoA questions. If the driveway is a county house outside the city, this is the first human you call. The two phones exist because the two separate offices do not cover for each other.

NPS Desk does not issue short-term rental licenses

Ste. Genevieve National Historical Park answers at. That line is visitor landscape. It is not a short-term clerk's office. The park will talk about the unit, the houses you can walk, and visitor hours. It will not issue Certificate of Appropriateness paper. It will not stand in for Ste. Genevieve County. Do not file a ranger conversation as a license. The NPS unit is not a lodging jurisdiction here. A park conversation is not 2026 diligence.

A tile that treats the park as the clerk is already wrong. A tile that treats park walks as occupancy is also wrong.The tourism filekeeps visitor dollars off the host year. The clerk file repeats the warning so the phone tree stays honest. if a guest needs park hours. if you need city hall., extension 2, if the parcel is county land. The park phone is visitor landscape only. Do not file it as diligence. Visitor hours are not a permit line.

Do not ask the park to bless a CoA the Heritage Commission already owns. Do not ask a ranger to bless a remittance path. Do not treat a visitor-center conversation as a 2026 confirmation. If a broker packet cites the park as the hall, send the packet back. The visitor landscape is real. The clerk's office is not there. Keep on the guest page. Keep it off the loan file. Bolduc House and a downtown festival weekend are recreation copy. They are not a license, and the park will not mint one because a guest wants a Friday key.

CoA Does Not Cover a County Parcel

Certificate of Appropriateness applies to exterior work in the city historic district and, on the city PDF, to work within 185 feet of a Landmark. Applications are due the second Monday of each month on that same file. confirm triggers, fees, and timeline at hall before you treat that PDF as finished. A county house outside city limits is a different desk: Ste. Genevieve County, and whatever township paper the tax map still names. Do not flatten CoA onto a county parcel.

Identification is the first step. A driveway that walks to the park can still sit inside the city district. A driveway that photographs the same street can sit outside it.The marketing fileis where the district-line photo note belongs after the parcel is right. This clerk page only refuses to file city paper on county land, or county paper as if it were CoA. The 185-foot Landmark language is city language. It does not follow the river.

Ask the hall which side of the line you hold. Then stop writing Heritage Commission copy onto a parcel the city does not own. Exterior work, second-Monday filings, and Landmark proximity are city lines. They are not a costume you paste onto every Ste. Genevieve County lot. If the clerk says you are outside, write that down and call the desk the map names extension 2. If the clerk says you are inside, write that down and stay on. confirm CoA file before you advertise a trigger you printed from last year. 38 listings cannot share one CoA sentence if half of them sit outside the district line.

Pam Meyer Is the City Clerk

Parcel is the first line. Confirm whether the driveway sits inside Ste. Genevieve or on county land around the town. Confirm that it is not a Farmington card and not a Perryville card you hoped to borrow. A tile that names the wrong town teaches the guest the wrong overnight. A tile that names St. Louis as the pin teaches the guest the wrong region. St. Louis is one hour on I-55, not this driveway. Read that map first.

AirROI neighborhoods mash Maryland Heights into this cell. Label that desk. It is not Ste. Genevieve. Maryland Heights is a St. Louis-suburb mash.The visitor guidecan name St. Louis as the arrival. The clerk file cannot let the arrival rewrite the deed. Farmington is an inland county seat. It is not this river. Festus is a 404. Do not invent a Festus hall. Do not advertise a Crystal City suburb as this cell. Confirm Ste. Genevieve County on the tax bill before you confirm the phone. A tiny cell cannot survive a wrong city on the tile.

Confirm parcel, then confirm the hall, then write the stay. Do not advertise a St. Louis path on a Ste. Genevieve driveway. Do not advertise a Farmington seat as this clerk. The two phones exist because the two separate offices do not cover for a metro. A live tile that already named the wrong city should come down until the hall and the remittance path match the driveway. Copy is cheaper to fix than a tax desk you advertised in public. Pull the tax map first, then write the stay on this driveway. Do not skip it.

What to Bring to the Desk

Bring the parcel number, the street address, and a simple statement of use: entire home or not, nights you intend to advertise, and whether you already have a live tile. Bring the platform URL if it exists. Bring proof of ownership or authorization. Bring a floor plan only if the hall asks. Do not bring a blended Farmington T12. Do not bring park walks or festival hours as zoning evidence. Bring the CoA PDF only as a question, not as a finished answer.

For city hall at, ask whether the parcel is inside the city, whether it is inside the historic district, what remittance 2026 still requires, and what the live CoA file says. For the county clerk at, extension 2, ask the same questions on county land and on recording. For the park at, ask visitor hours, not for a permit. Confirm every answer as 2026.The DIY filecan wait until the hall has spoken. Copy is cheaper to rewrite than a listing that never had a clerk.

Leave with a name, a date, and the next form. If the hall says confirm the CoA trigger in writing, wait for the writing. The modest NPS-town overnight starts at the counter, not at the park gate. Write the answer into the listing packet the same day. A remembered phone call is not a 2026 confirmation. If city and county both claim the parcel, stop and get the tax map in writing before either tile or note moves. Bring a fee question only after the line is confirmed. A fee on the wrong desk is still the wrong desk.

Frequently Asked Questions

Where is city hall?

Hours Monday through Friday 8 to 5. Clerk Pam Meyer, extension 1104. This pass locked and a city-clerk extension 1104 from a thin contact page. This clerk page only refuses to file city paper on county land, or county paper as if it were CoA. For the county clerk at, extension 2, ask the same questions on county land and on recording.

Where is county clerk?

55 South Third Street, Room 2. County records, not the CoA desk. Genevieve County Clerk sits at 55 South Third Street, Room 2, Ste. Genevieve County Clerk answers at, extension 2, from 55 South Third Street, Room 2. The county clerk sits at 55 South Third, Room 2. Do not carry Farmington short-term paper into Room 2 and hope the county will cover a Third Street house.

Is NPS a clerk's office?

The clerk's office is not there. It is not a short-term clerk's office. A dedicated short-term ordinance was not confirmed on a primary page this pass. Do not invent a city short-term cap. Do not advertise a Crystal City suburb as this cell. Do not advertise a Farmington seat as this clerk. Bring the parcel inside this city, not a Farmington card you hope the river town will cover.

Does CoA cover a county parcel?

Certificate of Appropriateness is the city file on a historic-district parcel. For city hall at, ask whether the parcel is inside the city, whether it is inside the historic district, what remittance 2026 still requires, and what the live CoA file says. Ask the hall whether the parcel sits inside the city, whether it sits inside the historic district, what remittance path 2026 still requires, and whether live CoA triggers still match the 185-foot Landmark file you printed.

Farmington?

Do not file Farmington paper on this driveway. Pull the tax map first, then write the stay on this driveway. Confirm parcel, then confirm the hall, then write the stay. If the driveway is a county house outside the city, this is the first human you call. If the driveway is outside city limits, hang up and call the county.

What is the extract?

Peak-3 October, May, November. Peak months are October, May, and November. Ask whether the parcel is city or unincorporated county land, what 2026 remittance looks like, and which other County market, if any, still touches a lodging stay. the city or the county that matches the tax map and ask which desk owns the parcel in 2026.

Does I-55 assign the hall?

It does not assign the hall. I-55 does not assign the hall. If the hall says confirm the CoA trigger in writing, wait for the writing. Confirm every answer as 2026.The DIY filecan wait until the hall has spoken. Confirm every line at the counter in 2026. A live tile that already named the wrong city should come down until the hall and the remittance path match the driveway.

What do I bring?

Then call the desk the map names. Farmington is a fourth desk you do not call from this cell. Farmington is a fourth desk you do not call from this town. This is the city desk in a French colonial river town, not St. This is the County market, not the city desk and not an NPS permit shop.

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