Laid out in 1895 by Juliuis Pitzman, the Roehampton Addition possesses some of the largest and grandest homes in Tower Grove East in the blocks just to the east of Grand Boulevard. The addition is named after an area of Greater London southwest of the central city.

The houses are large and eclectic, and while the subdivision was laid out in the late Nineteenth Century, as is typical throughout the city, building didn’t begin for several years after.

While most of the houses are the sort of “typical” four-squares with pyramid roofs with front-facing dormer windows, there are a couple of houses thrown in that have gable roof extensions out the front of the main massing.

Much as we see in the greater West End, tan and buff brick appears in the early Twentieth Century on the South Side, as well.