409-411 Market Street - Hermann Historic District - Hermann, MO
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N 38° 42.227 W 091° 26.267
15S E 635841 N 4285064
Commercial section of Market St., ...
Waymark Code: WM13DXX
Location: Missouri, United States
Date Posted: 11/19/2020
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County of building: Gasconade County
Location of building: Market St., middle of block - E. side, Hermann
Built: 1876/1887/c. 1890
Architectural Style: Commercial Vernacular
"409-11 Market, Klee-Kimmel Building, 1876/1887/c. 1890, Contributing (survey #197)
Outbuilding: Smokehouse (?), contributing
Built in two major phases, this building began as a one story residence and shoemaker shop
with a second floor added c. 1887, and a two story addition added to the north c. 1890. The
addition to the north was built to resemble the original building, though a prominent seam
and lack of corbelled cornice, and large dormer mark the newer addition. The building has
two storefronts on the first floor, both of which have been modernized with newer brick,
smaller display windows and modern doors. The second floor has nine window openings
with stone sills, segmental arch tops, and 2/2 wood windows. The side gable roof has two
dormers. The older dormer (to the south) is narrow with a gable roof and 6/6 wood windows.
The larger dormer (to the north) has a hipped roof and paired 2/2 windows. Behind the
building is a brick, gable roof smokehouse." ~ NRHP Nomination Form
"The first phase one story brick section was built by William Klee in the fall of 1876 as a residence and shoemaker's shop. K1ee had immigrated directly from Bavaria to Hermann in 1851 with his family. In 1887 Klee gave a mortgage on the property probably to add the second story to his house. Two years later he sold the entire property to Charles Kimmel who added the last phase before 1892. Kimmel ran a saloon in the building, later adding a boarding house. The smokehouse was present by 1892. The rear porch was added after 1917, as was the façade porch.
"General description: two- and one-half-story rectangle endgable brick
building resting on a rock-faced coursed stone foundation and built in
three distinct phases.
"The first and oldest phase is the right hand segment of the façade and
only the first story. The second phase added a second story to this
segment and the third phase extended the building, continuing the roofline
to the north in a full two- and one-half-story section.
"Setting: the building is built to the sidewalk on the façade and is
separated from its neighbor on the south by a one foot space. It is built
to the alley on the north." ~ DNR Historic Survey PDF page 530, part II