Wyeth Flats

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Wyeth Flats
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Location 1015-1031 Faraon St., St. Joseph, Missouri
Coordinates 39°46′9″N94°50′48″W / 39.76917°N 94.84667°W / 39.76917; -94.84667 Coordinates: 39°46′9″N94°50′48″W / 39.76917°N 94.84667°W / 39.76917; -94.84667
Area less than one acre
Built 1888 (1888)
MPS Frederick Avenue MRA
NRHP reference # 85003355 [1]
Added to NRHP October 25, 1985

Wyeth Flats, also known as the San Regis Apartments, is a historic apartment building located at St. Joseph, Missouri. It was built in 1888, and is a large four-story brick apartment building. It originally contained multi-story townhouses and converted to an apartment building in the 1940s. [2] :1

Apartment self-contained housing unit occupying part of a building

An apartment, flat or unit is a self-contained housing unit that occupies only part of a building, generally on a single storey. There are many names for these overall buildings, see below. The housing tenure of apartments also varies considerably, from large-scale public housing, to owner occupancy within what is legally a condominium, to tenants renting from a private landlord.

St. Joseph, Missouri Place in Missouri, United States

St. Joseph is a city in and the county seat of Buchanan County, Missouri, United States. Small parts of St. Joseph extend into Andrew County, Missouri, United States. It is the principal city of the St. Joseph Metropolitan Statistical Area, which includes Buchanan, Andrew, and DeKalb counties in Missouri and Doniphan County, Kansas. As of the 2010 census, St. Joseph had a total population of 76,780, making it the eighth largest city in the state, and the third largest in Northwest Missouri.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. [1]

National Register of Historic Places federal list of historic sites in the United States

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References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service.
  2. Bonnie Wriqht and Nancy Sandehn (n.d.). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Wyeth Flats" (PDF). Missouri Department of Natural Resources. Retrieved 2016-09-01.