Heckmann Speculative House - Hermann, MO
Posted by: YoSam.
N 38° 42.411 W 091° 26.209
15S E 635919 N 4285405
Not many of these around here...
Waymark Code: WM13D4F
Location: Missouri, United States
Date Posted: 11/12/2020
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County of house: Gasconade County
Location of house: E. 1st St., 2nd structure E. of Market St., S. side, Hermann
Built: c. 1853/c.1880
Architectural Style: Folk Victorian
"110 East 1st Street, Heckmann Speculative House/Hermann German Methodist Church
Parsonage, c. 1853/c.1880, Contributing (survey #17)
This two-story house began as a 1-story stone house c. 1853 and was greatly expanded with a
brick second floor in c. 1880. The house has a pyramidal roof and a four bay façade. The
entrance has a transom and sidelights and is sheltered beneath a single-bay hipped roof porch
with Victorian scrolled brackets and turned posts. The first floor windows are 2/2 with wide
triangular wood hoods. The second story windows are also 2/2, but have segmental brick
arches. A hipped roof dormer with 2/2 window is centered on the steeply pitched roof." ~ NRHP Nomination Form
"The first story of the building is much earlier than the second. The
original house was an end-gabled structure built as a speculation by
Johann Heinrich Heckmann. Heckmann was an early resident of Hermann
and had become a member of the German Settlement Society while
residing in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. A carpenter by trade, it is
said that he was the builder of many of the early houses. Heckmann
built the first stage of the building between 1851 and 1853, and
though he may have lived in the house for a short time, it is
unlikely as he maintained his residence for many years on Wharf
Street during this period. In 1857 he sold the house on First
Street. In 1861 Christian Wehrner was in possession of the property
and lived in the house for many years. Wehrner was responsible for
the donation making the construction of a Methodist church possible
on the adjacent lot. This house was used as the parsonage for many
years.
"The house is unusual in its construction with stone walls covered
with an early concrete stucco. Only one other roughly contemporary
building which has a similar construction survives. The brick second
story was added in the late 1880s, at which time the rear frame ell
was probably added. At that time the porch was probably added and
the windows changed on the first story.
"General description: Two and one half story rectangle shaped building
built in two stages with the first story constructed of stone being
the earliest with the brick second story added later.
"Setting: The house is flush with its neighbor to the east and sits
virtually at the sidewalk. On the west there is an ample side-yard
between it and the church which sits at the corner lot." ~ DNR Historic Survey PDF page 19
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