Historic American Buildings Survey, Creator. Frame House, 1191 Saint Michael Street, Florissant, St. Louis County, MO. St. Louis County Missouri Florissant, 1933. Documentation Compiled After. Photograph.
Well, that looks like an interesting house I need to check out, I thought to myself, proceeding to St. Michael Street. I was greeted with a vacant lot. It clearly didn’t make it from 1933 to the present day.
Likewise, the house next door, visible in Google Street View just a year ago, was now missing from its lot, as well. It had been demolished.
1171 St. Michael Street, Google Street View, May 2022.
These early vernacular houses, very much indicative of German settlement, have been disappearing over the last one hundred years, with only old photographs to document their existence.
Historic American Buildings Survey, Creator. Frame House, Florissant, St. Louis County, MO. St. Louis County Missouri Florissant, 1933. Documentation Compiled After. Photograph.
There are plenty still down in the city, where access to brick and stone allowed for sturdier construction, but up here, many more were built of wood.
Historic American Buildings Survey, Creator. Frame House, Exterior, Olbique View of Side and Front, Florissant, St. Louis County, MO. St. Louis County Missouri Florissant, 1933. Documentation Compiled After. Photograph.
They were simple, as this interior photograph shows.
Historic American Buildings Survey, Creator. Frame House, Interior, Front Door and Windows, Florissant, St. Louis County, MO. St. Louis County Missouri Florissant, 1933. Documentation Compiled After. Photograph.
The lathe was wide, and the insulation was shoved in between the wood studs. The wallpaper was something else, wasn’t it?
Historic American Buildings Survey, Creator. Frame House, Interior, Showing Wall Construction, Florissant, St. Louis County, MO. St. Louis County Missouri Florissant, 1933. Documentation Compiled After. Photograph.
this house was my grandparents home. there is a modern home in its place in 2024. actually there is two photos on another web site. there is an old wooden lawn chair against the house. Mr and Mrs Henry Theismann lived there in the late 1940’s into the 1950’s. You could walk up the street about a block cross the street and Hanke’s tavern is and still is there on the corner. After all these years I don’t think the street was st Michael.
this house was my grandparents home. there is a modern home in its place in 2024. actually there is two photos on another web site. there is an old wooden lawn chair against the house. Mr and Mrs Henry Theismann lived there in the late 1940’s into the 1950’s. You could walk up the street about a block cross the street and Hanke’s tavern is and still is there on the corner. After all these years I don’t think the street was st Michael.
Interesting, thanks for the information!