Mergmeyer Residence - St. Charles, MO - Victorian Style Architecture on Waymarking.com

County of building: St. Charles County
Location of building: N 4th St., 2nd house S of Lawrence St., E side, St. Charles
Built: c. 1900
Architectural Style: Queen Anne
Architect/Builder: Unknown
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. 1900
Walls: Frame-Asphalt sheathing
Foundation: stone
Roof: cross gabled/asphalt
Architectural Style: Queen Anne
Projecting façade bay trimmed with Queen Anne brackets/wood ornament; artglars in transom windows. Center chimney; triple round arched, gable window.
owned by Mergmeyer 1905." ~ St. Charles City Historic Survey  pages 248-249