Blackmer Place was clearly the former estate of the house we’ll see in a second. It was also subdivided in the 1910s or 20s, judging from the housing styles of the elegant homes built on the street.

The houses range from the Tudor Revival to the more common Colonial Revival.

We now get to the Studley-Blackmer House, which was obviously the house at the center of the estate. The printer Robert and Mary Studley came to St. Louis from New England in 1853 and moved into the Italianate style house in 1866. Lucien Blackmer, who owned a sewer pipe company, bought the house in 1891, after living on Marshall Place (which we’ll see tomorrow).

The houses on the west side of the street actually back up to South Rock Hill Road.

I turned onto that road next, where there are a host of other interesting houses.

The houses sit high up on a ridge on the west side of the street.

This house is getting a many hundred thousand dollar renovation! Webster Groves is highly desirable and even a house sitting right at a busy intersection is in demand.