Saved from demolition twice now, the John B. Myers House, sits just north of the intersection of interstates of 270 and 170, though it once lay along a quiet stretch of Dunn Road (now a glorified frontage road).

Constructed in 1878, it is often described as Classical Revival, but I should point out that it has many elements of the budding Italianate style. It is a good example of how the transition of styles is not black and white, but often a slow graying.

As is typical of a bisymmetrical house of the time, there is a service wing protruding out the back, complete with a porch on both floors for house work that could be completed outside.

The barn is even older, dating to 1867, and is perhaps one of the oldest agricultural-related buildings in St. Louis County.

At one point it apparently was jazzed up as an Italianate barn, which I doubt was its original form; its current form is probably more accurate.

Further east on Dunn Road is the Franz Gittemeier House, which is now the home of Historic Florissant. Gittemeier married his wife Gertrude at Holy Trinity in Soulard.

It is now home to Historic Florissant, but you can see below how squeezed it is by suburban development from the gas station next door.