Wentzville, Missouri (Former) - 63385
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YoSam.
N 38° 48.630 W 090° 51.160
15S E 686445 N 4297938
Former post office, in what was the downtown area when US 40 passed through town. Now it is a back water to the active town.
Waymark Code: WM1670C
Location: Missouri, United States
Date Posted: 05/22/2022
Views: 1
County of house: St. Charles County
Location of house: S. Linn Ave. & E. Pittman St., SE corner, Wentzville
Built: 1900
Architectural Style: commercial block
"The assessor dates this building as 1900 and the 1905 plat map shows this building as the local post office, although it is known that the post office moved to the Schiebaum building at 1 East Allen where it would remain until the new post office was built in 1960. By 1927, the fire insurance map shows this as a printing office. The building retains its clipped corner doorway and Doric style cast iron column at the corner supporting its parapet as well as its original fenestration pattern, but unfortunately, an August 2017 Google street view shows mason removing and rebuilding what had been a nice stepped parapet ... " ~ Wentzville Historic Survey PDF pages 9-11
The 1960 built Post Office has been recently replaced with a new and larger facility out on old US-61, now known as Luetkenhaus Blvd., and closed the 1960 facility.
Type of structure:: Stand Alone
re-enter Zip Code here:: 63385
Current Status:: Former Historic Location
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