Platted in May of 1900 by Jacob Goldman, a Jewish businessman and banker who was kept out of other private streets and designed by Julius Pitzman, Hortense Place is one of the more interesting of its kind in the Central West End.

The lots are huge, and it is perhaps famous for #13 above, where Elsa Lemp Wright supposedly committed suicide, though it’s increasingly looking like she was murdered by her husband Thomas.

The increasingly popularity of Georgian Revival or Colonial Revival, is apparent on this street, which is a stark difference between the upper class and those of lesser means, as that style was slow to catch on for the latter until much later.

I sort of enjoy how the mature trees get in the way.

I can’t live in a house with a gambrel roof; it reminds me too much of barns, like the one that my family’s farm used to have.

And the Tudor Revival half timber construction, or Fachwerk in German, becomes hugely popular.