Guido (Guy) Kahmann - Washington, MO - Victorian Style Architecture on Waymarking.com

County of building: Franklin County
Location of building: Cedar St., 4th house S. of 4th St., west side, Washington
Built: 1888
Designated: C
Architectural Style: Queen Anne
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"The control and 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 1850s. ... During the late 1880s, large Queer Anne homes were built by George at 417 Elm, by Guy at 409 Cedar, and by English-born George Pike, the pipe factory superintendent, at 413 Cedar. (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.)

"By 1908, the west side of Cedar was almost fully built-up with Queen Anne houses and firmly established as Washington's premiere residential street. The small exclusive neighborhood continued to attract the town's leading families, most of whom were second generation German-Americans. The picturesque profile of the Queen Anne style with its towers, bays and prominent gables remained popular with District Builders until about 1910,... " ~ NRHP Nomination Form, PDF page 9

"Revival Styles. 1385-1941. Coded C; Photos #1 through #1O). "This group of twenty-one buildings 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, Tudor, 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