Forest Park Southeast Historic District

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Forest Park Southeast Historic District is a historic district roughly bounded by Chouteau Ave., Manchester and Cadet Aves., Kingshighway Blvd., and S. Sarah St. in St. Louis, Missouri. It was mainly developed as a working class residential district. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2001, deemed significant in both community planning and development and in architecture. The district provides 20 percent tax credits for eligible renovations. The original district identified in 2001 included 612 buildings and structures deemed contributing, with 92 of those being outbuildings such as garages. Architecture in the district includes numerous high architectural styles as well as St. Louis-area local styles. Numerous buildings are historical eclectic in styles, and some are vernacular and lacking in discernible style. Buildings in the district include single and multiple dwellings, a specialty store, a religious structure and a meeting hall. A boundary increase in 2005 added 51 buildings on 4170-4370 (even) and 4229-4341 (odd) Manchester Ave. to the district in 2005. A second boundary increase in 2007 added 4121–25, 4127–29, 4131, 4133, 4137, 4139–41, 4143, 4145, 4501–07, 4509–11, 4510, and 4512-14 Manchester Ave. in 2007. Third and fourth boundary increases added more. Boundary increase 1 in 2005 added 51 contributing buildings. Boundary increase 2 in 2007 added 12 contributing buildings. Boundary increase 3 in 2009 added 12 more contributing buildings. Boundary increase 4 in 2012 added 189 more contributing buildings. "Architectural styles found in the District range from high style buildings to building types with stylistic references. Most of the high style buildings are restrained versions applied to a working, middle-class neighborhood and include variations of popular styles from the era in which they were constructed. The District's Late Victorian styles include nine Italianate (Photograph #21, 4200 through 4208 Chouteau Ave. and Photograph 36, 4400 Chouteau Ave.); four Second Empire (Photograph # 26, 4306 and 4308 and 4310-12 Chouteau Ave., and Photograph # 17,4300 Chouteau Ave.); 10 Queen Anne (Photograph # 113,4547 Arco Ave. and Photograph # 46, 4476 Chouteau Ave.); nine Italian Renaissance [ or Italian Renaissance Revival? ] (Photograph # 115, 4445-47 Gibson) and 37 Romanesque Revival (Photograph # 12, 4459-61 Oakland Ave., Photograph # 66, 4340 Arco Ave., and Photograph # 79 second from left, 4346 Gibson Ave.)." "Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Revival styles include 40 Colonial Revival (Photograph #121, 4538 Arco Ave., Photograph # 100,4435-37 Gibson; three Tudor Revival (Photograph # 53,4531-39 Chouteau Ave.); three Late Gothic Revival churches ( Photograph # 61, 1124 Kingshighway Blvd.); and one Mission Revival (Photograph # 71,4301-03 Arco Ave.). Modem Movement buildings found in the District include the Art Deco Masonic Building (Photograph # 64 and # 102, 1052-56 Kingshighway Blvd.) and nine Craftsman style residences (Photograph # 89, 4519 Oakland Ave. and Photograph # 107,4559 Wichita)."

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