719 North Second Street - Frenchtown Historic District - St. Charles, Missouri - NRHP Historic Districts - Contributing Buildings on Waymarking.com

County of building: St. Charles County
Location of building: N 2nd St., 3rd building S of Franklin St., W side, St. Charles
Built: c. 1905
Architectural Style: Second Empire/Apartments
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 Anna. 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 Anna houses which feature decorative surface patterning on gables. One two-story commercial building at 900 N Second employs a Mansard roof.

" ... and one turn-of-the-century flat at 719-21 N. Second Street is embellished with quasi Renaissance Revival ornament." ~ NRHP Nomination Form, pages 4 & 34

"Built: c. 1905
Walls: brick
Foundation: stone
Roof: flat/mansard
Architectural Style: second empire
Constructed as flats between 1900 and 190 Sanborn maps." ~ St. Charles City Historic Survey  pages 7-8