George Kahmann Residence - Washington, MO
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N 38° 33.485 W 091° 00.937
15S E 672902 N 4269605
This structure is appointed in group "C"...see address on district map.
Waymark Code: WMZB32
Location: Missouri, United States
Date Posted: 10/12/2018
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County of building: Franklin County
Location of building: Elm St., 4th house S. of 4th St., west side, Washington
Built: 1889
Designated: C
District Map
"The control on development exhibited on the west side of Cedar was
extended to the east side of Cedar and the west side of Elm through the
efforts of the heirs of Hannoverian immigrant C.H. Kahmann (1826-1834)
who had been a major landholder/resident there since the 1350s.
Karraanr.'s sons George and Guy (or Guido) had close business ties with
the Tibbes. Shortly after the elder Tibbe was granted a patent for his
lathe-turned cob pipe in 1878, George Kahmann provided financial
backing to the new company; his brother, Guy, served as
secretary/treasurer. During the late 1880s, large Queer Anne homes
were built by George at 417 Elm ... In 1894, George Kahmann sold his Elm
Street house to Washington brewery heir. John B. Busch, jr., who had
married Kahmann's sister, Cassilda, in 1889." ~ NRHP Nomination Form, PDF page 9
"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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