George Otto/John Busch House - 301 Cedar St. - Washington, MO
Posted by: YoSam.
N 38° 33.582 W 091° 00.932
15S E 672906 N 4269784
The Busch brewery owner lived here, as die George Otto.
Waymark Code: WMY6B0
Location: Missouri, United States
Date Posted: 04/30/2018
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County of house: Franklin County
Location of house: SW corner of 3rd St. & Cedar St., Washington
Built: 1941
"The red brick veneer exterior of the District's last house. 301 Cedar,
(Photo #1, 1st on right) was designed In 1941 by Washington architect
Ulrich W. Busch: it covered an 1990s frame house (Photo #4, right
foreground) but maintained the fenestration pattern and hipped roof.
The oversized sized gambrel-shaped, gabled entrance of the 1890s design was
replaced by a more subdued Neoclassical scheme of two-story pilastared
brick piers which carry a pediment: a broken pediment is features above
the front door.
"Edmund Otto's
house stood directly across the street from the circa 1396 house at 301
Cedar which his brother, George H., had purchased in 1903. The Otto
family had been prominent furniture dealers and undertakers in
Washington since the mid-19th century, and still conduct business there
today. In 1919, ownership of the corn cob pipe company passed from the
Tibbe family to E.H. Otto; it remained in the Otto family for over
fifty years.
"The same year the Post Clinic was under construction, Busch drew up
plans for a major renovation and addition to the George H. Otto house
at 301 Cedar. Originally constructed of frame circa 1896 for Dr. P.M.
Butler as a residence and office, the house
was given a red brick veneer and a Neoclassical entrance with two-story
pilasterad piers carrying a pediment: a mortuary enriched with
patterened brickwork was added at the rear." ~ NRHP Nomination Form
"Revival Styles. 1385-1941. Coded C ; Photos #1 through #1O).
"This group
of twenty-one ouildings represents nearly two-thirds of the total
District count. Fourteen are Queen Anne, four are Colonial Revival,
and there is one example each of the following styles: Neoclassical,
Tuaor, and a mixed revival vocapulary. The District's four frame
buildings are within the Queen Anne Revival group. All of the Revival
buildings rise two or two and one-half stories except for three brick
one or one and one-half story houses. Queen Anne houses exhibit most of
the major stylistic characteristics associated with the style:
irregular plan-shapes with set-backs, or projecting wings or bays;
hipped roofs with asymmetrically placed front and side gables, or full-width
front gable roofs; asymmetrical façades often punctuated with
towers or bays; one-story front porches; and tall chimneys. Several of
the houses also display exuberant detailing commonly found in the
style: Eastlake incised panels, elaborated wood bracketed or corbelled
brick cornices, filigree corner brackets, roof finials, prominent
façade gables enriched with trusses, sunbursts or patterned wood
shingles. Three frame houses - 309, 315, and 413 Cedar - display
overhanging front gables. A few of the later (circa 1905-1910] Queen
Anne houses take up a free classic subtype defined principally by the
use of classically detailed corones and more restrained massing."
~ NRHP Nomination Form
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