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Berry Road Blunder
Posted on July 22nd, 2007 3 comments
Berry Road Park, Glendale MO
The 2-story brick home shown above was built in 1940. You can see that a later addition went horribly, horribly wrong. I hope it was a D.I.Y. job so that no professional remodeling firm is responsible for this.As it stands alone, this is a headshaker, but total bewilderment comes when seen in context to its neighbor directly in front of it.
A 1935 Harris Armstrong home is the calling card for this residential court. The developers even took their cues from the above when building the entry marker, below. The other homes on this street range in age from 1940 to 1951, and come in a small handful of varying contemporary styles. So, again, there is a stylistic context at play in this development… with one house that doesn’t play well with the others.
3 Responses to “Berry Road Blunder”
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alfonso July 25th, 2007 at 5:24 AM
quite interesting
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samizdat August 7th, 2007 at 9:05 AM
I grew up around this area. Flower Hill Ct.(just down Berry) then Yosemite, down Kirkham. I have always loved this house on the corner and am overjoyed and amazed every time I see it again and it is unaltered. Naturally, I’m also extraordinarily apprehensive about its condition every time I pass bay, as well. I don’t suppose you saw the biiig white house on BRP just up the street, did you? I recall, from my childhood, someone telling me that that house had once had a third story, before a fire took off the original third.
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Remiss63 August 13th, 2007 at 11:22 PM
I hadn’t seen that first house before. What a massive contradiction the brick base and the rest above is . . .
It’s great to see the results of all your investigations. Wonderful.
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