After finishing up looking at Seventh Street, we returned back to our starting point, which was Immanuel Lutheran Church, which lies on Jefferson Avenue between Sixth and Seventh streets.

I actually looked at Jefferson Avenue in St. Charles back in May of 2019, but this time I wanted to focus on more of the area around Immanuel Lutheran Church.

Dating from 1848, which is an interesting year because of course that is the year of the revolutions in the German states and many other places in Europe, the congregation grew until the current building was built in 1867.

It’s a great example of the Gothic Revival, and a break from the more common Romanesque Revival which I tend to see around St. Charles County in the 1860s.

We looked at Immanuel Lutheran’s cemetery a week or so ago.

Across Jefferson Avenue is the Baue Funeral Home, originally in a large Romanesque Revival house painted white, and an accompanying chapel in the Modernist style.

The business was founded in 1935, and the house was actually the family home of the owners.

The chapel, not surprisingly, is from the late 1960s.

Here is another house with a storefront at the intersection of Jefferson Avenue and Sixth Street.

Another nice one down Sixth Street at First Capitol, which is actually a bed and breakfast.

And there’s also a Lustron house, I believe, just to the south.