720 North Fifth Street - St. Charles, MO - Missouri Historical Markers on Waymarking.com

County of building: St. Charles County
Location of building: N 5th St., 2nd house S of Franklin St., E side, St. Charles
Built: C. 1910
Architectural Style: American Foursquare
Classified: D
Frenchtown District Map

Historic Marker Text:

720 North Fifth Street [C.1015] First paper physical evidence of this house appears on the 1917 Sanborn Fire Map. Agnes Alexander sold the property to Lana Anderson. An American Four square style of architecture having a bracketed cornice on the front porch. Columns have Corinthian style capitals. Exterior windowsills of stone and have arched lintels.

Web link: [Web Link] History of Mark: "Late 19th and 20th century. Revival Styles, circa 1895-1940, coded D Revival styles are employed in less than 10% of District buildings, Making this collection of buildings the smallest stylistic group. Except for one church and two commercial properties all examples are residential, four of which are frame and the remainder, brick. Colonial Revival-influenced houses are most numerous. A concentration of circa 1905-15 brick Classic Boxes (Foursquares with Colonial Revival porches) are located in the southwest corner of the District. A few more modest one-and-a-half story houses exhibit Colonial-detailed porches, and one turn-of-the-century flat is embellished with quasi-Colonial/Renaissance revival ornament. Late Colonial Revival one-story Cape Cod cottages are represented by two frame district houses built circa 1935-40. From the same period are three brick one-and-a-half story Tudor Revival houses exhibiting the characteristic dominant front gable motif. A profusion of Revival style ornament is displayed in the cast iron storefront and pressed metal second story : and in the elaborated pressed metal cornice." ~ NRHP Nomination Form "Built: c. 1910 Wall: Brick Roof: hipped/asphalt Foundation: Stone Architectural: American Foursquare Constructed between 1909 and 1917 Sanborn Maps Bracketed overhanging eanes. Hipped roof dormers on all elevations. Ornamental capitals trim porch piers." ~ St. Charles City Historic Survey  PDF pages 326-327 Additional point: Not Listed

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