The Onion House The Kohms | St. Louis MO | Rehabbing our historic 1890s Late Victorian home amidst an urban garden, chickens and bees.
Home • An 1892 Queen Anne Victorian in Tower Grove South
Owners • Patrick Kohm, 38, a marketing manager, and Kirsten Kohm, 31, an interior designer. They have sons Rylan, 3, and Juniper, born in December
Origin of the home and its nickname • This home, one of the first wood-framed homes in Tower Grove South, was built as a single-family home by a German cabinetmaker named Gerhard Ludewig and has Moorish revival, Queen Anne Victorian and classic German characteristics.
In the 1950s it changed hands from the original owner’s family and at some point was converted into a three-family residence, with various owners not properly maintaining it and making cheap fixes with different types of materials. “Part of that includes the many layers of siding on the exterior including wood, faux-brick tin and asphalt shingle — all with varying levels of deterioration and patchwork,” the Kohms wrote to the Post-Dispatch. “Because of the many layers, the prominent onion dome atop the turret, and ‘the propensity to make you cry’ with the amount of work it needed, it was nicknamed ‘The Onion House’ by the neighborhood and previous owners.”
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