320 Morgan Street - Frenchtown Historic District - St. Charles, MO
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N 38° 47.359 W 090° 28.841
15S E 718813 N 4296412
This structure in the Frenchtown Historic District is classified as D. Looks more Colonial Revival than Modern
Waymark Code: WM18T0Z
Location: Missouri, United States
Date Posted: 09/21/2023
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County of building: St. Charles County
Location of building: N 5th St. & Franklin St., NE corner, St. Charles
Built: C. 1900
Architectural Style: Colonial Revival/American Foursquare
Classified: D
Frenchtown District Map
"Late 19th and 20th century. Revival Styles, circa 1895-1940, coded D
Revival styles are employed in less than 10% of District buildings, Making this collection of buildings the smallest stylistic group. Except for one church and two commercial properties all examples are residential, four of which are frame and the remainder, brick. Colonial Revival-influenced houses are most numerous. A concentration of circa 1905-15 brick Classic Boxes (Foursquares with Colonial Revival porches) are located in the southwest corner of the District. A few more modest one-and-a-half story houses exhibit Colonial-detailed porches, and one turn-of-the-century flat is embellished with
quasi-Colonial/Renaissance revival ornament. Late Colonial Revival
one-story Cape Cod cottages are represented by two frame district
houses built circa 1935-40. From the same period are three brick one-and-a-half story Tudor Revival houses exhibiting the characteristic
dominant front gable motif. A profusion of Revival style ornament is displayed in the cast iron storefront and pressed metal second story : and in the elaborated pressed metal cornice." ~ NRHP Nomination Form
"At least one of the Colonial Revival designs, 800 N. Fifth, 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." ~ NRHP Nomination Form, PDF Page 34
"Built: c. 1900
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Architectural: Colonial Revival (?)
~ St. Charles City Historic Survey PDF pages 581-582