3457
and 3459 Arsenal Street
Two Family Gut Rehab
Tower Grove East Neighborhood
The upstairs luxury apartment at 3457 Arsenal received a
2003 Homer Award for
Outstanding Adaptive/Historic Renovation
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photos of 3457 Arsenal [the apartment]
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photos of 3459 Arsenal [the office]
HISTORY: The Old Butcher Shop and Flats
The property lot for this building
can be traced back to 1876. The following note was recorded when
the deed was transferred,
"In trust that party second,
shall forever use said property and its proceeds for the support,
aid
and maintenance of the R.C. Orphans of the city and county
of St. Louis, Missouri, especially those of German birth or
descent."
In
keeping with this request, the lot was deeded in 1903 to the
Ursuline Convent and Academy. In 1907, the Grand Realty Company
and architect C.H. Finch were granted a permit to build a two-story
store and
flats on the site
at a cost of $7,000.
In 1909, August and Julia Kreutzer bought
the building and Mr. Kreutzer opened his butcher shop downstairs.
The family lived upstairs at 3457 and rented out the flat
over 3459. The
butcher shop, later listed as a grocery store, was actually
in the Kreutzer family until 1941. For the next 32 years, the
store went through a few owners and several name changes.
In 1975 it became Frosty's Kwik Shop, and that would be the
last of the businesses to occupy the space.
The building stood vacant from the
mid-1980s through the 1990s.The St. Louis Land Reutilization
Authority [LRA] acquired the property in 1999. Only months
later, Millennium purchased it knowing it would fit the bill
for the live/work space they needed. They put
their business office downstairs in the old grocery space and
the upstairs
was
converted into a luxury
apartment
for co-owner and vice-president Tim Vogt.
This project is funded in part by a grant from the Department
of Housing and Urban Development and the Community Development
Agency under the Provisions of Title 1 of the Housing and Community
Development Act 1974 (P.L. 93-838)
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