The other day when showing a property on Halliday in Tower Grove East, I stumbled across this home. I can see hints of Prairie Style in these building elements. This has nothing really to do with Prairie Style, though Tower Grove East used to be referred to as La Petite Prairie. Read more HERE
Designed by William Wedemeyer in 1903 for Jacob Studt, Jr. This historic estate perched above Creve Coeur Lake will enchant you. Located on almost an acre with a century oak commanding the front yard. It is rare to have such an elegant example of Arts and Craft architecture outside of the city. You will love the gorgeous woodwork & gracious rooms. The dining room is large and features an intricately carved fireplace mantle & surround. 2.5 stories with a richly engraved oak staircase that climbs 3 stories. The home is built of limestone, wood siding with a cedar shake roof. There is newer, large family room 30' x 30’. The kitchen features granite counters, custom oak cabinets, gas stove, stainless steel appliances & breakfast room. A laundry room is off of the kitchen. Refreshing in-ground pool. Lovely gardening including a stream with waterfall. 5 bedrooms & 3.5 bathrooms. Plenty of basement storage. Parkway Central School District. 3-car oversized garage.
$735,000
http://13643amiot.canbyours.com
Listed by Ted Wight, Dielmann Sotheby’s International Realty, 314-607-5555, [email protected]
The other night when attending Circus Flora, I stumbled across this lovely home located on Samuel Shepard Dr. Such a beauty!
"The Robert Henry Stockton House at 3508 Samuel Shepard Drive serves as another Romanesque Revival masterpiece. Adorned with a stone front with elaborate floral details and grand arches, one can only imagine what its neighbors looked like." From St Louis Magazine.
Read more HERE
Go see the Circus....through June 28th and check out this house!
Happy Thanksgiving! I thought today would be the ideal time to talk about The Mosley Cabin that is a central feature of a new listing I have at 38 Beacon Hill Lane, Creve Coeur, MO 63141. The Mosley Cabin was built around 1860 on an 80 acre land grant. The family initially built a 1-room cabin and then added a second with a "dog-run" in-between.
Here are some examples of Dog-Run or Dog-Trot Cabins that I found on the web and they are not historic pictures of the Mosley Cabin.
Here is what this home looks like now.
I am off to our farm for Thanksgiving. I hope everyone has a happy one. There is Banana Cranberry Walnut Bread in the oven and my appetizers are made. Come back tomorrow and I will share the recipes and pictures.
This week I went through one of my favorite homes in Ladue...the white-pillared home on Price. It is now on the market with Coldwell Banker's Ladue Office. I am told that this was the Arkansas display house from the World's Fair. My step grandmother, Grace Wallace Niedringhaus Wight, lived in this house as a young girl in first part of the 1900's. She told me that it was really out in the country at that time. The street car stopped at Busch's Grove. She said that things changed in the area when the St. Louis Country Club moved from Clayton to the present location in the 1920's. Then everyone started building homes in the area. She also grimaced when she heard that an owner after her family painted the pecan panelling white.
The William Albert Hirsch Residence in the Parkview is probably one of the most important Arts and Crafts homes in the St. Louis area. A nice couple bought the house a few months ago and are tenderly preserving it. Luckily the home was in its original state when they bought it. All of the original fixtures were in place....though in need of a little love.
Here is a link to some old photos and the full history of the house:
http://www.acanthuspress.com/PDF/Hirsh.pdf
Everyone loves the homes along Lindell across from Forest Park. There is a stand of equally beautiful homes along Delmar just West of the Loop designed by Theodore Link. He designed Union Station!
(The notes below were copies from the application to put them on the National Historic Registry. Some of the words may not be correct. I used an automated text copier, which is not always exact.)
The three houses at 7100, 7104 and 7108 Delmar Boulevard form a continuous
frontage along the south side of the street from Vassar Avenue west. All
three were designed by Theodore C. Link and built by Kerrill Construction
Company beginning in 1911. Although comparable in size, the three houses
are of contrasting designs. The Rand Mansion at 7100 Delmar is an elaborate
example of the Georgian Revival, the Niedringhaus House at 7104 Delmar is
Tudor Revival, while the Shinkle House at 7108 Delmar displays design
features derived fron the French Renaissance. All three fit into the
stylistic category of "the period house," and all have thoughtful .
floorplans and careful detailing which were hallmarks of their architect.
The Rand Mansion is marked by a white two-story portico of six Corinthian
columns across the center three bays of its nine-bay facade. These columns
(visually) support a (cantilevered) full entablature with an exceptionally
wide frieze which continues around the whole house. This is surmounted by
a balustrade above the portico and by a brick parapet elsewhere. Above the
portico, the hipped roof has three round-headed doraer windows set in
pilaster-ed, pedimeated surrounds. A similar dormer is at each end of the
roof. The red brick body of the house is accented with limestone details
in the form of a ground-floor string course and voussotrs above the first-floor
windows. The center door is set in an elaborate wooden bay that
projects slightly forward from the brick wall, creating a shallow balcony
in front of the second-floor window. A wooden oriel on the east side,
second floor, has leaded glass windows, and another leaded window lights
the stair landing at the center of the south elevation. Georgian Revival
detailing continues on the interior in the staircase and fireplaces. The
dining room to the right of the entry is divided by a screen of two columns
in the manner of Robert Adam, and the sun room in the southeast comer
(apparently remodeled or enclosed in 193V) has Adaraesque details as well.
The third or attic floor is finished as a ballroom.
The Niedringhaus House is a two-and-a-half-story structure with a high pitched
slate gable roof. It is built of dark reddish brown textured brick
laid in black isortar with recessed joints. Both front and back elevations
have two large overhanging half-timbered gables, and this black-stained
wood and white stucco is continued above the first floor on both ends of
the house. A one-and-a-half-story wing at the west end of the main structure
is similarly treated, with gable end to the front. Four brick chimneys
punctuate the roof line, one at the center of the east end, one near the
center rear, one near the front of the west end, and one centered in the
front of the wins. Stone surrounds decorate the front windows and doorj
the door has a basket-handle arch and is sheltered by 3. hipped hood. The
center window above this is topped by a small stone-carved coat of arras.
A surprise feature is the elaborately curled wrought- iron embellishing
the porch on the south face of the wing, A second porch, one story tall
with white wood columns, extends from the cast sids of the house.
Stylistically! the Shinkle House is the hardest to pin down. It combines
stone and brick in a manner reminiscent of French chateaus of the time of
Henry IV (1589-1610), and the stone front porch with its two pairs of
rusticated Tuscan columns especially recalls the north entrance of the
Luxembourg Palace in Paris (begun 1615). Seen from above, the house forms
a front-facing U) the arms have two bays each and the center section five bays.
Between the arms is a stone terrace supported in the center three bays by
the columns mentioned above, and in the two end bays by enclosed one-story
elements, all under a continuous entablature. Windows in these enclosed
bays, as well as on the first floor of the arms, are in the form of french
doors with top lights) those in the arms have shallow wrought-iron balconies.
The house is of brown brick with black mortar. Glazed bricks fona quoins at
all corners. The windows have stone surrounds, and between floors of the end
bays are stone spandrels carved with foliate swags on Mlchelangelesque
panels that end in guttae. Flanking the large center door on the terrace
or second-floor level are two similar carved I«.nels, Spandrels on east ami
west ends omit the swags. A wide frieze and modillioned cornice support the
hipped roof. Chimneys rise from the east side of the house and the east side
of the west arm. On the west side of the house is a small one-story addition,
possibly built in 191?.-*
All three houses have garages to their southwest, built of the same
materials as the houses, and all with separate entrances to their dormered
attics. The garage of the Rand Mansion is approached from Vassar Avenue.
It was designed for three cars, and is finished on the interior with white
ceraaic tile. A three-car addition to the east was made in 1928. The
garage of the lliedringhaus House has separate spaces for three cars, while
the Shinkle one has a large door covering two spaces.
The ground rises on the south side of Delmar Blvd., giving the houses an
elevated position. The lawns of the Niedringhaus and Shinkle houses are
graded into two continuous terraces, but this continuity is obscured by the
high hedge and large conifers in front of the Niedringhaus House.
A reader sent me this information and picture yesterday. It looks like a different house than the one that I talked about a few weeks ago. Any further information readers have one this subject is appreciated. Litzsinger Woods is a new subdivision now with "cluster homes".
"Shown below is a picture of the Rhode Island exhibit home at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair. On July 4, 1904 it was purchased by St. Louisian John Ringen with the intent to dismantle it and reconstruct it on his farm on Litzsinger Road. On your old plat maps of the era you will see this located in the Charleville Tract where the Mo. Pac. RR branch and Des Peres River meet, just west of Tilles Park., what is now part of Litzinger Woods. I'm not so sure this is the same building you depict as the old World's Fair building in your communique of February 16, 2011???"
Check out the previous post about this subject HERE
Check out this lovely mansion via this link:
http://15washingtonterrace.epropertysites.com/
Listed by Ted Wight, Dielmann Sotheby's International Realty, 314-607-5555, [email protected]
$797,000
The cool Art Deco house up in North County at 11851 Benham Rd, St. Louis, MO 63138 is for sale. It looks like it is bank-owned. Only $54,900. Listed by St. Louis County as a historic home.
Offered by Benjamin Niocholas, Realty Executives of St. Louis, 314-756-9100
Now as it appears without the awnings.
Here is another dose of my bad journalistic skills. Below is a picture of a house on Litzsinger Rd near Tilles Park. Someone once told me that during the 1904 World's Fair there were houses on display that typified various State's architecture. I think this one was for Rhode Island and was moved to Ladue after the Fair. If any one knows more or the location of other homes also used in the World's Fair, let me know.
(Update: see one of the comments. I got confirmation that is was the Rhode Island house from the 1904 World's Fair.)
(Update 3-20-11 check out this information sent to me by a reader: CLICK)
It is unfortunate about the condition of Old North St. Louis and that most locals never go to this area unless they are going to Crown Candy Kitchen. I drove around there the other day and was happy to see the the mall near Crown Candy kitchen is all redone and looks great. There are some lovely old homes still standing in the area. See the beauty below on St. Louis Avenue.
This is the second part of my photo collection taken on Sunday of some of the Harris Armstrong houses that were on tour. They are all in a couple of neighboring enclaves in Oakland off of Sappington.
(The house below was Harris Armstrong's studio that he built for himself below his main house. There has been a significant addition put on the back that is not a Harris Armstrong design.)
Below is the house that Harris Armstrong lived in that sits up a hill and though some woods from the studio pictured above. My iPhone pic does not do it justice. Check out this LINK for more pics. It is currently for sale for $800,000. Listed by Mary Schwabee, Prudential Alliance Realtors, 314-821-9290.
Check out the blog, Ecology of Absence, for information on the renovation/rebuilding plans for Clemens House. Check out the current state of the house below....the only reason the front porch is still standing is that the pillars are made of cast iron.
One of the original gates was reconstructed behind the Jewel Box in Forest Park. Designed by Louis C. Mullgardt in 1894.
Brentmoor Park is one of the most sought-after private neighborhoods. Traditionally the In neighborhoods were the private streets of the CWE, though everything keeps pushing West in St. Louis over the years. Brentmoor Park appealed to the owner who wanted more land and privacy compared to Westmoreland and Portland Places. In those days the residents of the CWE would spend the entire afternoon going from neighbor to neighbor dropping off their calling cards. It sounds like a perpetual Halloween.
My great grandfather moved his family up from New Orleans to St. Louis around 1908 and built a house at #5 Brentmoor Park in 1911 designed by Howard Van Doren Shaw. His wife was from St. Louis and did not think New Orleans was a place to raise a family....I think there were also malaria scares.
It is interesting that he moved his family to Westmoreland Place in the 20's. They must have not liked "the suburbs".
Here is a link to a document that discusses the planning and design of Brentmoor Park: LINK
5 Brentmoor Park
Historic Photos
"Own a piece of St Charles history with this home on The National Register of Historic Places. This home is one of a kind and there is no comparing it. The Italianate architecture takes one back to pre-civil war Missouri. This antebellum like home has many original features: woodwork, flooring, butlers pantry, shutters, 5 fireplaces, a wood burning cook stove, and a crimped tin bathtub that was supposedly the first in St. Charles to have indoor plumbing." $1,500,000. 205 S Duchesne Dr
Here is a picture of Auguste Chouteau's home in St. Louis. It was built in 1764 and demolished in 1841. At one time it was considered the finest home in St. Louis. I think it was located near Market and Chestnut. August Chouteau was one of the legitimate children of Madame Chouteau. She fled an abusive husband in New Orleans and hooked up with Pierre Laclede. They lived together in the wilderness, had several children, though never got married. I don't think it was easy to find a good lawyer and priest in those time. My mother and father are actually related, both descending from two of the "illegitimate" children's lines. In the old days the legitimate descendants looked down on the illegitimate descendants. At least the illegitimate descendants could boast St. Louis' founder as their ancestor! By the way, St. Louisians mispronounce the name Chouteau when they refer to the street. It should be pronounced "Shoe Toe" not "Show Toe".
Over the weekend I was going through some old family photos and came across a picture of the old Berthold-Ewing home that was at the NW corner of Broadway and Pine(basically where the Metropolitan Life building is now). On the back of the photo it lists who is in picture...many old St. Louis names: (Bartolomew Berthold, Mrs. William Ewing (Nee Clara Berthold), Mrs. Wagaman, Miss Julia Berthold, Clara Kennedy, Mrs. Bartholomew Berthold, Mrs. Sylvester Labadie(nee Pelagie Chouteau), Amadie Berthold and August, William and Fred Ewing. The black man is noted as being George.
This home was build in 1829 in Summit Square by Bartholomew Berthold. The picture below is of the Miles Brewton house, 1769, in Charleston which was an obvious influence.
