F. Dauve House - St. Charles, MO - Victorian Style Architecture on Waymarking.com

County of building: St. Charles County
Location of building: N 3rd St., 2nd house N of Decatur St., E side, St. Charles
Built: c. 1895
Architectural Style: Folk Victorian
Classified: C
Frenchtown District Map

"Late Victorian, circa 1865-1905, Coded C
Represented in this chronological period are 62 buildings (about 30% of the total) whose forms and detailing frequently mix various related Picturesque styles, including Italianate, Mansard, Gothic Revival, and Queen Anne. Eighteen of the total are frame and the remainder are brick. The majority of these buildings express stylistic influence primarily in ornamental detailing, new roof forms and in irregular plan shapes in houses. Italianate examples are limited to two, 1860s large brick houses featuring prominent bracketed cornices and to a couple of commercial/residential buildings which employ bracketed cornices, and in one case, an ornamental cast Iron storefront. New picturesque roof profiles are found in houses exhibiting dormered mansard roofs (and Italianate bracketed cornices), or prominent gable-front facades; separately, roofed, spindlework wood porches are also typically found sometimes in more conversative side-gabled houses. Gable front-and-wing designs as well as cross-gable extensions from hipped roofs create irregular plans or several small houses and also as a few two-story Queen Anne houses which feature decorative surface patterning on gables. One two-story commercial building at 900 N Second employs a Mansard roof." ~ NRHP Nomination Form

"Built: c. 1895
Wall: Brick
Roof: side gable/asphalt
Foundation: Stone
Architectural: Folk Victorian
House was owned by F Duave on the 1905 plat. Constructed between the 1893 and 1900 Sanborn maps."~ St. Charles City Historic Survey  PDF pages 104-105

"Many of the cottages of the 1880s and 90s extended four or six bays wide and were built for two families, although three-bay, single-family houses were also built. Conservative in form and plan, the houses differed little from the French house type, except for the treatment of the front porch, the absence of a street front high basement, and new Victorian detailing. For example, 706 N. Third, built circa 1895 as a duplex by Frank Dauve, features a separately roofed front porch instead of the galerie type formed by an extension of the main roof. The rear of the house, however, is raised on a double-entry high basement sheltered by a two-story galerie. The paired center doors instead of the earlier window-door-window arrangement are also typical of this transitional house type. Numerous other 1390s houses exhibit decorative Victorian wood porches which cover only the center door-bays. A plan variant in rear porch design appeared in 1890s houses which placed the porch on a side ell, affording more privacy in the double-family examples. Some porches are raised on walk-in high basements." ~ NRHP Nomination Form<