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[@ThisHouse]

Check out more restoration photos: trappercottage.com/

[@twistoffate4791]

I wonder if Robert Cook still works at Clementine's in the Soulard District. I was also perusing the old cartoons, etc, in the newspapers, and enjoyed those along with the bit from Ripley's Believe it or Not.

[@MultiRispo]

You must film a video about lynnlynnewood hall 😍

[@emmas1082]

It looked like a new track home inside, a little disappointing.

[@11thstalley96]

@@twistoffate4791 Clementine’s has been closed since at least 2014. The building is now a sports bar named Duke’s.

[@twistoffate4791]

@@11thstalley96 Thank you so very much for the information! I really appreciate it.

[@janedee6488]

Ken, really like seeing you do the house tours. Lots of fascinating homes in this area.

[@ThisHouse]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@twistoffate4791]

I really liked the square windows, the art on the walls, the green paint and the cool fireplace. I loved the stories your guests shared, and it was fun being back on our old Missouri turf again. Well done!!

[@curiousworld7912]

The St. Louis area has some spectacular homes, in many different neighborhoods. (I have a lovely coffee-table book, 'Westmoreland and Portland Places', by Julius Hunter, that's filled with gorgeous pictures of the mansions along these streets.) This is a great house you're showing, and I'm delighted it was both saved from destruction, and brought back to new life. We Americans have been quick to 'tear down the old; build up the new' for so long now; it's wonderful that this attitude is changing, and we're a bit more conscious of preserving our historic homes and other structures. Thanks for sharing the tour - I'm glad to have stumbled across your channel. :)

[@LJB103]

I think the fireplace looks great with the little remaining plaster on the bricks. Excellent rehab job. Fun video.

[@SpanishEclectic]

I appreciated you having the owner and local historian provide some additional history. The place is pretty crowded if you read through the "Paranormal Report" on the website! Good info there, including a bit of history about Creole style houses. These buildings are over 200 years old, which is old for the U.S. Here in San Diego we have a few (mostly re-constructed) adobe brick buildings. One of my favorites is Casa de Estudillo, which is now a museum, and of course, the Mission San Diego de Alcala.

[@ladonnabuehne1867]

Ken, so glad to see something that is not a mega mansion in Manhattan again. Your back in MY Grove again. Hope to see more of local interests. Thanks

[@ThisHouse]

There's more to come! Glad you enjoyed this one!

[@donnaw2868]

Wonderful video. That stone wall was really special. So glad this one got saved. The interviews in this video were very well done. Nice work!

[@p.mckenzie2921]

What a wonderful older home and the brick work is just beautiful. Ken each video just gets better and better thanks for sharing.🏠

[@catherinemtc7795]

So glad this beautiful house was saved.

[@catherinescott8142]

I did a bit of digging on this. I was born in Natchez and lived between there and New Orleans. You can probably guess how exciting this is. Thank you for all of your hard work.

[@christians.7019]

Beautiful day for This House! Love Soulard homes!

[@mariaboletsis3188]

Thank God they saved this house it's a treasure! Great job!

[@jelsner5077]

I saw my house for the first time in a newspaper ad. The photo in the ad made it look like a 1950s era home. It had horrible, metal siding. The house was not from the 50s but 1908. I lifted up a section of the metal siding and saw the original narrow, red cedar clapboards intact underneath. So I bought it. When we stripped off the metal siding, the house seemed to breathe a sigh of relief. It took a whole summer to strip off the old paint but it was worth it. I love this old house.

[@mikenixon2401]

You're making me nostalic again, Ken. Soulard Market was a regular for us back in the day. Another fun video, Thanks.

[@jimreilly917]

I like this channel more every time I watch. Glad some of our French heritage still stands in the City. There’s a really interesting French colonial in Glendale on Hill Dr. It’s been substantially renovated but when they began rehab, in the tear down they found the ORIGINAL FRENCH POST CABIN WALLS. It’s privately owned but if you could do a video on that…wow. That house predates the American Revolution. It’s easily one of the oldest homes in the entire region.

[@TheJojo01902]

Instead of an obscenely expensive folly built to honor ostentatious wealth only to be town down for ‘progress,’ in this video we see the exact opposite - a humble dwelling rescued and thriving. I love this story!! ❤️❤️

[@AngelavengerL]

This was so interesting. Super kudos on him choosing to restore the fireplace instead of just covering it up again. It turned out gorgeous!

[@jefflawrentz1624]

That’s a charming cottage. I’m so glad they saved it after the fire.

[@heathermiskell6]

So glad this piece of history was saved!!! So beautifully remodeled!

[@classifiedinformation6353]

My 1845 brick house in Bethel, Missouri has the same wall construction for it's center wall. This portion of the house supports the first floor and attic floor. It was built by Germans that had prieviously settled in Pensylvaina and Indiana. John Bethel, Missouri

[@sashaconrad3939]

What a beautiful house! The restorers did a wonderful job!

[@lumia57]

Love seeing the older building here in Stockport Cheshire UK we have some amazing very old houses check out the Staircase on the Market place where it is one of many places that Bonnie Prince Charles hid! And where he crossed over the two rivers that flow through our Town the Staircase is a Museums and along with the Jail house also on the Market place ... Just a bit of history about where I live 💜😂

[@ThisHouse]

Thank you for sharing!

[@sashaconrad3939]

That’s so fascinating!

[@ladyflimflam]

Nice to see you getting around easier. Hope that means more St. Louis content. ⚜️

[@Parianparlay]

Great channel Ken, really well done and so interesting. I loved this report on the very old house. Very tastefully decorated as well. Thank you so much!

[@inadisapio8184]

Thank you for all the amazing history that you share with us. Our house was built in the 1840’s

[@cindybogart6062]

I really love this house. What a wonderful job that’s been done here.

[@jonrussell1690]

Ken, WOW!!! Loved this house and loved how the fireplace was found. Thoroughly ENJOYED this video!!!

[@TeeMeeBeeWee]

Nice fireplace rebuild. Cool that he saved the old nails.

[@eastcoastartist]

Please, do more like this. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@des9655]

Ken as always you do a great job showing St Louis. Love your work as always.

[@baffledanderanged2101]

What an amazing house! Thank you for the tour. 💝

[@ThisHouse]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@Joy-TheLazyCatLady2]

I prefer that they maintain as much as possible and stay faithful to the original structure. Maybe I had seen the "restoration" from the beginning I could appreciate what they've done to it. I just no longer see a 1790 house. I do appreciate the tour and the story. Thank you so much. ✌🏻💙🇺🇸

[@davidhennen7045]

Once the house was discovered to be special it was looted then torched.🔥🔥 Damn, what a savage knighborhood...🤣🤣

[@reneemb4319]

This is a great story! Thanks Ken!

[@keithng128]

Truly a hidden gems, on plain sight.

[@kathyrickey1181]

Really like the rectangle glass above the doorways.

[@KarenRose70]

Such a nice house. They did a really good job restoring it.

[@rebeccavalicoff1581]

Amazing craftsmanship!

[@tgmorrow]

I always enjoy your videos but this was one was extra special! Thank you.

[@lila6117]

Love the house tours and a mystery, even better.

[@mariakettlehut7399]

Loved this Reno .

[@CW0123]

I like the kitchen and the modern transition 😅

[@jeanniemesserschmidtz1954]

Beautiful beautiful….. thank you for video.

[@williamshelton4150]

Do you think that the fireplace on the lower floor was used for cooking? In structures where the main floor is raised, the lower floor was often for meal preparation, dining, and service/storage.

[@llfields3]

Yes, it's very likely they used the fireplace for cooking and would have had a more substantial mantle structure to support a pot that could swing into the fireplace to cook the food. I opted for a simple mantle with the intention of keeping the area more open. As far as food storage, there is a root cellar below the lower level, which is unique in that it was created with brick walls that are buttressed out, i.e. the walls are thicker at the bottom than the top.

[@Kimberly-cx9uv]

Such a lovely House, and tour guide x

[@adamberndt4190]

I live in downtown Milwaukee surrounded by mid and late 19th century "Beer Baron" Mansions. The Pabst Mansion being probably the most famous is 4 blocks away from me. I'll send you all the footage you'd need if you'd be willing to edit and voiceover them.

[@ultraviolettp3446]

Thanks for sharing and keep up the great work with your channel!

[@jamesholt7612]

That's a beautiful house Ken.

[@IRantaboutStupidity]

You should do a video on the Walloomsac Inn in Bennington Vermont! It’s the perfect place for you to talk about

[@ML-xi2rt]

Always fascinating! My favorite channel !

[@picasso7721]

That was very interesting.

[@susanelmore7329]

Wow! Fantastic!

[@josedanielrodriguez1126]

It is beautiful to keep historial houses, even if they are not famous

[@danarosario2015]

You should check out The Rankin House Lenoir NC very cool house has been relocated and renovated a few times all the historical paperwork is there as well

[@StamperWendy]

Thanks, Ken!

[@pavelow235]

Fascinating.

[@cathifamjourney469]

Very cool!

[@jackieboudreaux6339]

I love that bar in New Orleans

[@smorgasbroad1132]

Really cute house. Where is Soulard?

[@ginamaria2579]

So interesting, any names attached to this piece of History ?? Fur traders

[@2FeCarbon]

Ken, you can wear sunglasses and a hat outside too, because we will all know it's you anyway.

[@TheCaffeinatedOrganist]

The door headers are Greek revival. Not federal

[@midgie4410]

What about the basement??

[@juansaladzar]

Start a fire in that fireplace I want to make sure it works brah

[@ventclinic945]

born on the south side of saint louis

[@derekandjo75]

Built before the previous reset. It's a Mudflooder. (DUH)

[@derekandjo75]

Our timelines are waaayyy off. 1790-1840?!

[@robyndavis3043]

It looks like that the history of the house, pre-dates the Civil War, and had slaves as well; there also could’ve been “black voodoo” practiced in the house (since the history includes, that the original owners were of French Creole descent), and that the entities within the dwelling, give off a “negative energy” especially near/around the “original” fireplace on ALL the floors within the house. With that being said, the current owner, should do more research (on his own), about the property itself-which includes, an “unmarked” Native American cemetery as well.

[@juliehirsh1436]

What about the little shitty house next door or 2 doors down. My boyfriends mom owned that old thing when we were kids