2919 Salena [The Dairy]
For Sale: $560,000, or
For Lease: $3500
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2921 Salena [Farmhouse and Carriage House]
For Sale: $575,000, or
For Lease: $2500 (FarmHouse), $1500 (Carriage House)
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Single Family Gut Rehab
Benton Park Neighborhood

HISTORY: The South Side Consumer Dairy
The original farmhouse at 2921 Salena [shown below left] was built as a single-family home in 1884. What we refer to as "The Dairy", next door at 2919 Salena [shown at left], was a storefront/warehouse building constructed in 1904. A two-story carriage house was eventually built behind the farmhouse in 1920.

Henry Funk, a tailor who had his shop on south Fourth Street, lived in the farmhouse at 2921 Salena from 1884 until 1904 when it was sold to William C. and Louisa Grimm.

After acquiring the farmhouse the Grimms built the storefront at 2919 and proceeded to run their business, Grimm Brothers Window Glass, there until 1925.

The property continued its history of home and business when, in 1926, it became the Theodore Hediger Dairy. In 1931 Mr. Hediger changed the name to the South Side Dairy and later to the South Side Consumer Dairy Company. By 1939 the dairy was listed at both 2919 and 2921. In 1944 the Hediger family sold the dairy to the Beatrice Creamery Company which later became Beatrice Foods. Two years later Anthony Goellner had bought the dairy but kept it a very short time and in 1947, he sold it to William T. and Esther Corrigan. They named it Northland Dairy and it operated for the next 21 years. In 1963 the Home Juice Company was also listed at this address, but by 1965 only Northland Dairy remained. Four years later it had become Gaymont Dairy Specialties Company. The last business to be listed here was a diet beverage company, H & R Distributor and that was in 1980.

The properties were vacant from 1981 and the Benton Park Housing Corporation worked for many years with Alderman Ken Ortmann to find a way to acquire the property for redevelopment. Eventually the Land Reutilization Authority acquired the property and Millennium was selected by the Benton Park Housing Corporation as the developer.

As development began on the project, it was found that some of the original historical details had been altered or changed completely. The brick had been painted; glass block had been installed where windows once were; white glazed brick had been applied over the exterior façade; the courtyard was roofed in; heavy machinery was located in many parts of the buildings; and the first floor of the carriage house had been converted to a massive walk-in cooler.

Fortunately though, Millennium has found that the original room dimensions had remained intact; The Dairy's historic storefront had been covered over with siding and was completely salvagable; and much of the original decorative brick work on the farmhouse remained.

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2647 Wyoming Street
For Sale: $270,000, or
For Lease: $2500
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Single Family Gut Rehab
Benton Park West Neighborhood

HISTORY: Jacob Gischel's Rental Property
Jacob Gischel, a butcher who owned the property next door, also owned the lot and in 1902 he obtained a permit to build a two-story dwelling here for $3,600. The flats were designed by Anton Riewe and built by Charles W. Schuler a carpenter who lived in the neighorhood. Upon completion, the two flats were rented by working class families. In 1923 the Gischel family sold the property. After that the building had numerous owners and remained rental property through the 1980s. Beyond that we know very little except that the property was acquired by the Land Reutilization Authority. Millennium acquired the property and began work on gutting and redeveloping it in early 2006.

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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2649 Wyoming Street
For Sale: $335,000, or
For Lease: $2500
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Single Family Gut Rehab
Benton Park West Neighborhood

HISTORY: Gischel's Butcher Shop
This storefront at the corner of Wyoming and Ohio was built in 1897. Jacob Gischel had his butcher shop on the first floor, and he and his family lived upstairs. The Gischels bought the shop and dwelling in 1901 for $3,000. Mr. Gischel and wife Louisa then sold the property in 1923. It had two additional owners before William and Bertha Biermann bought the place in 1924. The Biermanns continued to operate a butcher shop in the storefront and lived upstairs. By the mid-1930s the property had changed hands again and the store was listed as a grocery. It remained a neighbohood market with an upstairs apartment until the early 1980s.

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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1927 Lynch Street
For Sale: $570,000, or
For Lease: $3500
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Single Family Gut Rehab
Benton Park Neighborhood

HISTORY: Leo Rassieur Rental Property [former site]
Since no original building permits were found for this property, we do not know when the house that originally stood here was built, but we do know that Leo Rassieur bought it in 1873 and it remained in his family until 1942.

Mr. Rassieur was a successful lawyer who acquired the property as an investment. An outline of the house shows up in the 1883 Hopkins St. Louis Atlas and the 1900 census documents a butcher and his family living there.

After that, not much is known but we can presume that eventually the house fell into a state of disrepair as it was torn down in 1997. Millennium bought the empty lot in 2005 and worked to design a house that is sensitive to the context of this historic neighborhood.

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2521-23 Minnesota Avenue
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Four Family to Two Townhome
Gut Rehab Conversion
Tower Grove East Neighborhood

For Sale: $225,000*, or
For Lease: $1500.

2521 Minnesota: MLS# 701557
2523 MInnesota: MLS# 701551

Features include:

• 3 bedrooms
• 2 ½ Baths
• Living room
• Dining room
• Kitchen
• Hardwood Floors
• Ceramic Tile
• Large family room
• 2 car detached garage
• All new mechanicals, plumbing, electrical
• Heating and Air Conditioning
• New sewer
• New water service

There is 1,740 SF of living space in each three bedroom, two-and-a-half bath townhome.

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2730 and 2732 Miami Street
Single Family New Construction
Gravois Park Neighborhood

Construction began: May 2007
Anticipated Completion: December 2007

$215,000*

• Write-down assistance available to income-qualified buyers
• Real estate tax abatement available

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Features include:

• 3 bedroom
• 21/2 bath
• Eat in Kitchen
• Large Living room
• Harwood floors
• 2 car detached garage
• Fenced rear yard
• Low-maintenance landscaping

These two new single-family homes have been designed to offer modern amenities while fitting very nicely into the historical architecture of the neighborhood. Each three-bedroom, two-and-a-half bath property has approximately 1,800 square feet of living space.

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3522-24 California Avenue $150,000* for each townhome
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Both units pre-sold

• Write-down assistance available to income-qualified buyers
• Real estate tax abatement available

Four Family to Two Townhome
Gut Rehab Conversion
Gravois Park Neighborhood

Both townhomes have 1,740 SF of living space and features include:

• Two spacious bedrooms
• Two-and-one-half baths
• Formal dining room
• Eat-in kitchen
• First-floor laundry room
• Restored hardwood floors on first floor
• Bonus office/study space on second floor
• New mechanical, electrical and plumbing systems
• New sewer and water service
• Off-street parking pad for two cars with access from the alley
• Fenced rear yard
• Low-maintenance landscaping

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3501 Juniata Street
Single Family New Construction with
Historic Storefront Feature
Tower Grove East Neighborhood

Construction has begun: April 2007
Anticipated Completion: November 2007
Pre-sold

$370,000*

• Real estate tax abatement available

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This new single-family 2,500 square foot residence is modeled after commercial storefronts of old, complete with corner entry and second-story turret.

The first floor has a spacious, open plan that's composed of the living room with fireplace, dining room, breakfast room and kitchen area.

The second floor contains the bedrooms, one with the fabulous turret detail, along with space for a home office/den and a laundry room.

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