Keur Koura @The Ville is an immaculately clean space, safe, and cheap sleep in St. Louis! Come experience an authentic stay in a historical neighborhood. Just minutes from Downtown, St. Louis University, and Harris Stowe College campuses. St. Louis annexed this area in 1876. Originally home to German and Irish immigrants and a small proportion of African Americans, the Ville is most widely recognized for the strength of the African American community that developed in the neighborhood by 1930. From 1911 to 1950, The Ville was the center of African American culture within the city of St. Louis.