1425-27 North Second Street - Frenchtown Historic District - St. Charles, Missouri - NRHP Historic Districts - Contributing Buildings on Waymarking.com

County of building: St. Charles County
Location of building: N 2nd St., 2nd house S of French St., W side, St. Charles
Built: 1871
Architectural Style: Federal
Classified: B
Frenchtown District Map

Federal/Greek, Revival, 1835-1890, coded B
30 buildings (approximately 15% of the total); are included in this group, six of which are frame houses and the remainder brick residential, commercial, and institutional buildings. Exhibiting sparsely detailed, planar facades, the majority represent a simplification and adaptation of high-style Federal and/or Greek Revival designs which lingered on as a vernacular classicism into the 1890s. The earliest example is the brick 1835 two-story, five-bay center block of the Sacred Heart Academy which received a mansard roof addition in 1876; it features a center-bay original entrance with elliptical fan light, and windows headed with jack arches. The 1838 two-story, five-bay addition to the north, and the mid-1850s three-bay addition on the south also feature regular fenestration with jack arched openings, the complex rests on a stone basement. Also on the Academy campus (near Decatur and N. Third) is a two-story rectangular brick building erected circa 1890 as a parish school but never used as such; it employs segmentally arched openings and a corbelled brick cornice.

"Before the influx of Germans, North Second Street was a sparsely-built throughfare of small structures, primarily residential, but also home to an occasional tavern, inn, blacksmith shop, and probably trading post. By the late 1850s, substantial two-story brick buildings combining first story commercial with upper story residential use were beginning to rise along the street, along with new one-and-a-half story houses. Frenchtown benefited by attracting immigrants with capital to build, and a good supply of resident Germans (together with a few Irish and French) who were skilled in building trades, including carpenters, contractors, brick masons, plasterers and painters. In 1860, Germans (including Frenchtown's Christopher Weeke) chartered the St. Charles Mutual Fire Insurance Co., and later in the decade, the St. Charles House Building Co.; both organizations were active in Frenchtown.

Further north on Second Street are two other projects of the Building Company: 1100; and 1425-27 N. Second, which was built in 1871 for James Short, a 23 year old Irish-born cooper in the 1870 census who later became a successful stone contractor." ~ NRHP Nomination Form, PDF page 10, 28

This structure was not included in the St. Charles City Historic Survey