Outbuilding of the Former Moses Austin House - Ste. Genevieve Historic District - Ste. Genevieve, Missouri
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N 37° 58.647 W 090° 02.539
15S E 759784 N 4207441
Historic building in the Ste. Genevieve Historic District in Ste. Genevieve, Missouri
Waymark Code: WM5E1R
Location: Missouri, United States
Date Posted: 12/25/2008
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"Outbuilding of the Former Moses Austin House. 72 South Gabouri Street, c.
1810 with later nineteenth century additions. Property type: Anglo-American
timber-frame house. This building consists of a one-and-one-half story side
gable, two-bay block with a single-story addition to the north wall. The
original block has a shed-roofed porch on its east facade and an enclosed,
single-story, shed-roofed ell projects from its rear wall. The porch shelters
one door, while a second door, located in the south wall of the ell, is
presently sheltered by a gabled hood. The block has a two-over-two, double hung,
sash window in the first story of the facade, and six-light windows in the
second story. A shed porch roof projects from the east wall of the north
addition. This porch, marked by four wood box columns, shelters a four-panel
door and six-over-six, double hung, sash window. The roof is sheathed in asphalt
shingles, and a brick chimney projects from the north end of the roof ridge of
the original block.
The large house that Moses Austin built on the lot was destroyed by fire in
the nineteenth century. The older portion of this building, which comprises the
southeastern end, contains a massive limestone chimney stack suggesting that
this part of the building may have been constructed by Austin and used as a
detached kitchen. The other portion appears to have been constructed several
decades later as evidenced by Greek Revival window and door heads.
Available evidence suggests that the building may postdate the period of
Moses Austin's ownership of the property. When Austin sold his Ste. Genevieve
property in 1811 to William Shannon for $2,000, the property was indicated as
containing "a large frame dwelling house, a kitchen, a stable, and a garden
enclosed." The building designated as a kitchen may have either been this
one or the vertical log building located at 68 South Gabouri Street. In 1840,
the building belonged to Elizabeth Shannon, a free African American women who
had formerly been Austin's slave."" ~
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