M. Holtfoester House - St. Charles, MO - Victorian Style Architecture on Waymarking.com

County of building: St. Charles County
Location of building: N 4th St. & Bayard St., SW corner, St. Charles
Built: c. 1885
Architectural Style: Eastlake
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. 1885
Walls: frame asphalt siding
Foundation: stone
Roof:
Architectural Style: Eastlake
Two front doors with transoms. Dormer gables trimmed with Eastlake detailing.
Parcel was owned by M. Holtfoester on the 1905 plot." ~ St. Charles City Historic Survey  pages 258-259