Around the courthouse square in Perryville are an assortment of brick houses, which I suspect are from around the time of the Civil War or earlier.
The houses are simple, with gable roofs and four bays wide facing the street. I suspect many were built by German immigrants.
A highlight is the Faherty House, which was recently placed on the National Register of Historic Places. The stone portion was built in 1828, which places it presumably as the oldest house in Perryville.
The brick portion was constructed in 1854; the name comes from the last owners of the house before it was purchased by citizens to make the property in a museum. When it was built, there was apparently only a courthouse and a saloon in town.
There is one Queen Anne Style house to the south of the downtown area.
But for the most part, brick houses, which began to appear in the decade before the Civil War are simple, as can be seen below.
