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 305 Morgan Street - St. Charles, MO Posted by:  YoSam.
N 38° 47.343 W 090° 28.816
15S E 718849 N 4296383
Fine Italianate house in the Frenchtown Historic District.
Waymark Code: WM18T7N
Location: Missouri, United States
Date Posted: 09/22/2023
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County of building: St. Charles County
Location of building: N 3rd St. & Morgan St., SW corner, St. Charles
Built: c. 1865
Architectural Style: Italianate
Classified: C
Frenchtown District Map
Marker Text: 305 Morgan Street
Weeke-Lawler House (c. 1865). Christopher Weeke had the house built. James G, Lawler purchased it in 1891. The original Italianate features included elaborate cornices, a cupola and porches. When later modified took on a more classical look. Features cast iron window sills and lintels.
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History of Mark:
"St. Charles Italianate residences, few in number, date from the 1860s through the 1890's and are generally large houses built by prosperous middle-class German-born and native Americans. Their primary characteristic is an enriched cornice, usually bracketed. Roofs vary from low-pitched hipped to gabled and hipped combinations. Typically roundheaded windows are found, but segmental arches and even castiron pedimented lintels or ornamental hood moldings occur. Three fine early examples (1865-70) are located at 305 Morgan, built by Prussian merchant Christopher Weeke; at 709 N. Fourth, the home of W. A. Alexander, a Virginia-born lawyer, mayor of St. Charles in 1870; and 305 Chauncey, built by the St. Charles Building Company for German-born William E. Clauss, a hardware and implement merchant." ~ Final Report, St. Charles City Historic Survey page 9
"Built: c. 1655
Walls: Brick-Painted
Foundation: Concrete block
Roof: hipped
Architectural Style: Italianate
Pedimented cast on lintels trim windows. Corbeled brick forms cornice brackets. Ionic columns support curved porch
Appears on 1869 Bird's Eye View. Vinson states the house was built by Christopher Weeke, founder of the Weeke Mill; in 1891 the house was sold to James G. Lawler, Manager of the St. Charles Car Co. (Weeke was born in Prussia)
Framed, hipped roofed carriage house to rear." ~ St. Charles City Historic Survey pages 579-580
Additional point: Not Listed
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