Which one of these is not like the other? I couldn’t find the name of the original builder of this stately house whose architectural style and form stands out from its its newer neighbors, but it was here by the late 1930s and the estate, according to modern real estate records was named Strathmore.

While it certainly has Colonial Revival tendencies, it also has stirrings of Modernism as seen in many houses out west along Clayton and Ladue roads.

The estate, whose boundaries are easily discernable from a 1937 aerial photograph by the tree lines surrounding it, was located on Clayton just north of the t-bone intersection with Weidman.