133 East Second Street - Hermann Historic District - Hermann, MO
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YoSam.
N 38° 42.361 W 091° 26.147
15S E 636010 N 4285314
Large district along the old water front....and the first stuff on the hill...
Waymark Code: WM12H4T
Location: Missouri, United States
Date Posted: 05/28/2020
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County of house: Gasconade County
Location of house: E. 2nd St, 2nd house W. of Schiller St., N. side of street, Hermann
Built: 1855
Architectural Style: Frame
133 East 2nd Street, Christoph Hoffman rental house, 1853-5/1900, Contributing (survey #339)
Originally constructed as a 1 or 1 1/2-story residence in c. 1853, this frame building had a second story added around 1900. The 2-story frame building has a flat roof, sits on a stone foundation, and has vinyl siding. The first floor is four bays wide with an entrance in the western most bay. First floor windows are replacement windows. The second floor has three, evenly spaced window openings. The parapet wall has fish scale shingles and a simple projecting cornice." ~ NRHP Nomination Form
"The house was built in two major stages. The first section is the
first story which was built between 1853 and 1855 by Christoph Hoffman as a one and one-half story front gabled building. The second story was added around the turn of the century. Christoph Hoffman was one of the earliest residents of Hermann and a member of the German Settlement Society. Hoffmann was a well-off cabinet maker who in later life also made significant quantities of wine. Hoffman never lived in the present building, living instead at the location of his cabinet shop, next to the United States Hotel on First Street. In 1862 he sold the East Second Street building to Hermann Hollwig, a carpenter who lived there with his family for a number of years.
"General description: There are two phases to this two story frame building--at one time it was only one story. The building is covered with lap siding and rests on a rock faced coursed ashlar stone foundation with a full cellar beneath.
"Setting: The building is set at the sidewalk. There is a narrow walkway between this and the adjacent house on the west. To the east is a substantial sideyard defined with a pointed paling fence set back slightly from the sidewalk. In the narrow space between the fence and sidewalk and with a small section before the house there are oversized patterned brick laid in a herringbone pattern. Behind the house is a large backyard extending back to the alley in the middle of the block." ~ DNR Historic Survey pages 237-241, part I