The Big House on Cook Avenue
A 122-year-old brick house dominates the street scene at the corner of Whittier Street and Cook Avenue in St. Louis, Missouri. Builders erected the 2378 square foot house in 1892. Sy unieke argitektuur sluit 'n toringbalkon op die tweede verdieping van die noordoostelike muur in. When first built, 4200 Cook must have been an impressive site.
Vandag, 4200 Cook is nie so indrukwekkend nie, tensy jy gefassineer is deur hoeveel 'n baksteengebou kan verval voordat dit ineenstort. Niemand het by gewoon nie 4200 Kook konsekwent sedert 1989. Dit blyk nie dat rehabbers die struktuur kan red nie.
4200 Cook Avenue (Vergunning van Google Earth)
Sadly, a couple wanted to rehab the building in the early 2000s but faced so many obstacles they eventually quit in frustration around 2003. Vandale en verwaarlosing het die voorwerk wat hulle voltooi het voordat hulle in frustrasie opgehou het, verwoes.
Looking at the size and architecture, I guessed that it must have been a rich St. Louisan se huis op een slag. Egter, bouers het dit dalk verkoop as 'n huis met kamers om te verhuur. As early as 1901, the private family, who owned 4200 Cook Avenue, rented two rooms to tenants.
4200 Cook Avenue from Whittier Street (Vergunning van Google Earth)
Since it was built in 1892, I doubt it became a rooming house so quickly. Dit sal meer waarskynlik wees dat die bouer dit ontwerp het as 'n huis- en kamerhuureiendom. Ek kan nie vir seker sê nie, however.
Op November 6, 1904, rowers het Michael Reiney verras, who roomed at 4200 Cook Avenue. Hulle het vir Reiney beroof $2 as he walked near Cook and Whittier. Die rowers het nie vir Reiney beseer nie. Geen rekord bestaan van die polisie wat die rowers vasgetrek het nie. This episode shows that crime is not a modern problem but one that we struggled with even in the “goeie ou dae”.
4200 Cooklaan gesien vanaf Cooklaan (Vergunning van Google Earth)
In a few more years, all we may have of 4200 Cook Avenue is pictures, so look and imagine of what 4200 Cook once was and could have been again. Te veel van St. Louis history is lying around the city in piles of brick.
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