John Platte House - St. Charles, MO - Victorian Style Architecture on Waymarking.com

County of building: St. Charles County
Location of building: N 4th St. & Montgomery St., SW corner, St. Charles
Built: c. 1905
Architectural Style: Queen Anne
Architect/Builder: John Platte
Classified: C
Frenchtown District Map

"Late Victorian, circa 1865-1905, Coded C
Represented in this chronological period are 62 buildings (about 30% of the total) whose forms and detailing frequently mix various related Picturesque styles, including Italianate, Mansard, Gothic Revival, and Queen Anne. Eighteen of the total are frame and the remainder are brick. The majority of these buildings express stylistic influence primarily in ornamental detailing, new roof forms and in irregular plan shapes in houses. Italianate examples are limited to two, 1860s large brick houses featuring prominent bracketed cornices and to a couple of commercial/residential buildings which employ bracketed cornices, and in one case, an ornamental cast Iron storefront. New picturesque roof profiles are found in houses exhibiting dormered mansard roofs (and Italianate bracketed cornices), or prominent gable-front facades; separately, roofed, spindlework wood porches are also typically found sometimes in more conversative side-gabled houses. Gable front-and-wing designs as well as cross-gable extensions from hipped roofs create irregular plans or several small houses and also as a few two-story Queen Anne houses which feature decorative surface patterning on gables. One two-story commercial building at 900 N Second employs a Mansard roof.

" ... was built by local contractor/architect John J. Platte (c.1869-1937). The son of a Frenchtown Prussian brickyard owner, Platte apprenticed to neighborhood carpenter John Borgmeyer, and then received technical training at a trade school in Chicago. At the turn of the century he became interested in concrete block construction, and began manufacturing his own block in a shop near his home. Other examples of Platte's work in the District include the modified Queen Anne design of his own frame house at 927 N. Fourth, ... " ~ NRHP Nomination Form, page 34

"Built: c. 1905
Walls: Frame-Asphalt siding
Foundation: stone
Roof: gabled/asphalt
Architectural Style: Queen Anne
Architect/Builder: John J. Platte
Entrance turet has metal finial on roof apex.
Constructed between the 1900 & 1909 Sanborn maps. Vinson states the house was the home of John Platte, a prolific builder and architect in St. Charles" ~ St. Charles City Historic Survey  pages 240-241