We looked at Fifth Street in the historic core of St. Charles back in May of 2019, and then there’s a quirk in the street naming system of the grid, as before we get to Sixth Street, there is Benton Street, which we looked at more recently in September of 2024.

Proceeding logically, we’re now looking at Sixth Street today. There is a wide variety of architectural styles, such as the more Greek Revival style house in the first picture on the cross street of Jefferson Avenue, which we looked at back in May of 2019, and then the Queen Anne style of the house just above. Then we have this huge porch below along Sixth Street attached to the first house!

There are a whole bevy of red brick houses from the 1880s to the 1910s along Sixth Street, but they’re a little hard to see in the foliage of the summer!

There is also Benton School, which I believe was built in 1896.

This house, near the end of our tour up Sixth Street, was the most intriguing to me. Note house it sits up high on the street, obviously pointing to a construction date before street grading.

And then, when we look around the corner, there is evidence that the earlier portion of the house is this structure! The simple gabled roof with a front porch probably dates to before the Civil War and was built by a German immigrant. In fact, I suspect that much of the neighborhood was settled by Germans.