403 Morgan Street - Frenchtown Historic District - St. Charles, MO - NRHP Historic Districts - Contributing Buildings on Waymarking.com

County of building: St. Charles County
Location of building: Morgan St., 2nd house W of N. 4th St., S side, St. Charles
Built: C. 1925
Architectural Style: Bungalow
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

"Built: c. 1925
Wall: frame asph. siding
Roof: gabled/asph. shingle
Foundation: concrete
Architectural: Bungaloid
Large brackets support roof; exposed rafters; gabled porch roof." ~ St. Charles City Historic Survey  PDF pages 589-590