406 Morgan Street - Frenchtown Historic District - St. Charles, MO
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This structure in the Frenchtown Historic District is classified as E. Popular style in New Orleans, and other places the French settled, there they are called Shotgun Houses.
Waymark Code: WM18RG1
Location: Missouri, United States
Date Posted: 09/18/2023
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County of building: St. Charles County
Location of building: Morgan St., 3rd house W of N. 4th St., N side, St. Charles
Built: C. 1900
Architectural Style: Shotgun
Classified: E
Frenchtown District Map
"Early - Modern: Craftsman, Bungaloid, Moderne, circa 1906-1940. Coded E
Forty-six District buildings (approximately 25% of the total) show influence of progressive design traditions associated with the Early Modern Movement. The majority are modest one-story; usually frame (sometimes brick) on concrete block or brick foundations, exhibiting Craftsman front gables with wide eave overhangs trimmed with simple buckets A sizable concentration is found in City Block; 119 and 120 -which were largely unimproved before the first decade of the 20th century, although examples are scattered throughout the district.
In addition, there are a few brick (often textured and of
variegated color) or frame bungalows on concrete foundations which
employ side-gabled roofs with oversized front dormers; shed-roof, full-width porches, supported by large brick or wood end-piers, are common. During the teens and twenties commercial buildings abandoned the highly ornamental revival style cornice for a sleek, shaped parapet, minimal trimmed with geometric brickwork. The new parapet
treatment is also illustrated in one multi-family flat, and in the 1914-25 façade of Franklin School; the adjoining 1926 school
gymnasium features Craftsman brickwork motifs and a lamella roof. By the World War II era, a few facades were further streamlined, exhibiting unornamented, smooth brick wall planes, or the barest minimum of Moderne horizontal brick banding." ~ NRHP Nomination Form
This building was not included in the St. Charles City Historic Survey.
There are called "Shotgun" houses because they are one room wide and multi-rooms deep. If someone with a shotgun fired it from the front door they would hit everyone, and everything, in the building all the way back.