323 & 329 North Main - St. Charles Coal & Ice - St. Charles, Missouri
Posted by: Groundspeak Charter Member BruceS
N 38° 47.010 W 090° 28.817
15S E 718864 N 4295767
Marker for historic ice and coal company in downtown St. Charles.
Waymark Code: WMDF7D
Location: Missouri, United States
Date Posted: 01/07/2012
Published By:Groundspeak Regular Member GEO*Trailblazer 1
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323 & 329 North Main
St. Charles Coal & Ice
1890 • Bettie Miller

In 1909, the St. Charles Coal & Ice Company made and delivered "artificial ice" for twenty-five to forty cents per hundredweight.  If the customer "desired heat instead of cold," they delivered coal for three dollars a ton.  Residents of St. Charles burned 60,000 tons of coal that year.  St. Charles Coal & Ice was located in several buildings in St. Charles over its lifetime.

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History of Mark:
323 N. Main ca.1870 Italianate 2-st., 3-bay brick house-store; storefront with recessed entrance; 2nd story segmentally arched windows; corbelled brick cornice; entry door to interior stairs in north bay. Part of the north half of Block 34 purchased in 1858 by prominent St. Louis attorney Britton A. Hill (1816-1888) who leased out lots, usually with a condition that lessee build on the lot. Sold to Bettie Miller in 1887.

"329 N. Main ca. 1895 Italianate 2-story, 3-bay brick house-store; first story storefront; door entry to interior stairs in south bay; interior of store features coved tin ceiling. Part of the Britton A. Hill tract (see 323 N. Main) which was sold in 1887 to Ida Davenport; owned by Bettie Miller in 1905." ~ NRHP Nomination Form



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