Colchester Apartments - St. Louis, MIssouri
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BruceS
N 38° 38.478 W 090° 15.898
15S E 738042 N 4280521
Historic luxury apartment building located across the street for St. Louis' Forest Park.
Waymark Code: WMR2W
Location: Missouri, United States
Date Posted: 09/21/2006
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"The Colchester Apartments is one of the first luxury apartment buildings constructed in St. Louis (Independent City). The Colchester, featuring four units with single enclosed entrances and individual names, was designed in a Classical Revival style by Boston architect William H. Andrews. Prior to apartments like the Colchester, multifamily housing in St. Louis generally was in the form of tenements or rooming hotels, the latter primarily occupied by working-class bachelors. By contrast, the Colchester appealed to entrepreneurial families, prominent members of the upper middle class who were actively involved in the growth industries of the 20th century, and the nouveau riche. Each of the six-story brick building's sections is centered around a limestone entryway defined by fluted columns supporting an architrave inscribed with its name--Aberdeen, Bellevue, Colchester and Devonshire--on fleur-de-lis capitals." ~ MODNR news release.
