Circa 1903 (728 Lewis) - St. Charles, MO - Missouri Historical Markers on Waymarking.com

"Located on a flat corner lot, this 1½-story, frame L-shaped house is distinguished by its 1-story gallery that is nestled within the L and extends along part of both the front- and side-gabled wings. The house has a concrete foundation and walls clad with cement asbestos shingles, except the walls protected by the gallery are finished with vertical board siding. The cement asbestos shingles were likely added in the late 1940s or the 1950s. The steeply-pitched, cross-gabled roof is clad with asphalt roofing shingles and there is no chimney. The first floor of the 3-bay façade has a 1/1 double-hung wood window and a 4-panel wood door in the side-gabled wing and a 1/1 double-hung wood window on both the first floor and upper half story of the front-gabled wing. The L-shaped gallery has a concrete deck, wood balustrade with turned balusters, wood posts with capitals and bases, and a hip roof. The west elevation has a 1/1double-hung wood window on both levels, and the shed roof wing that spans the rear has another matching window in its west wall. This shed wing is shown on the 1917 Sanborn Insurance map, which is the earliest Sanborn map to show this block.

"A public sidewalk spans the front of this 50’x132’ lot, which is located at the northeast corner of Lewis and Eighth Streets. A concrete sidewalk leads from Lewis Street to the gallery, and to each side of the sidewalk and along the gallery are landscape beds. Shrubs are along the front and west side of the house and mature trees shade the yard. A wood picket fence encloses the rear yard and at the northwest corner of the lost is a 1-story, frame, front-gabled, 2-car garage. The foundation is concrete and the walls are finished with cement asbestos shingles. Two paneled metal overhead doors on the west façade open onto Eighth Street. The garage appears to be more than 50 years old and is contributing." ~ St. Charles Historic Survey  Phase IV, PDF pages 1083-1086