Marten-Becker House | |
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Location | 837 First Capitol Dr. St. Charles, Missouri |
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Coordinates | 38°46′55″N90°29′27″W / 38.78194°N 90.49083°W Coordinates: 38°46′55″N90°29′27″W / 38.78194°N 90.49083°W |
Area | less than one acre |
Built | c. 1865 |
Built by | Kister, H. |
Architectural style | Italianate |
NRHP reference # | 79003200 [1] |
Added to NRHP | October 11, 1979 |
Marten-Becker House, also known as Becker House, is a historic home located at St. Charles, St. Charles County, Missouri. It was built about 1865, and is a two-story, "L"-plan, Italianate style brick dwelling. It features a richly bracketed cornice, cupola with arched windows of colored glass and ornate cast iron portico. Also on the property are two contributing brick outbuildings. [2] :2
Saint Charles is a city in, and the county seat of, St. Charles County, Missouri, United States. The population was 65,794 at the 2010 census, making St. Charles the ninth-largest city in Missouri. Situated on the Missouri River, it is a northwestern suburb of St. Louis.
St. Charles County is in the central eastern part of the U.S. state of Missouri. As of the 2010 census, the population was 360,485, making it Missouri's third-most populous county. Its county seat is St. Charles. The county was organized October 1, 1812 and named for Saint Charles Borromeo, an Italian cardinal. The county executive is Steve Ehlmann, since January 2007.
The Italianate style of architecture was a distinct 19th-century phase in the history of Classical architecture.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. [1]
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