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LOCATION: 1420 and 1424 Hebert Street; Old North St. Louis; Saint Louis, Missouri These small cottages are very old. The house at 1420 Hebert appears to be constructued in the 1870s and the house at 1424 Hebert appears to be an 1850s-era Greek Revival cottage. There also is a two-story alley house behind 1420 Hebert Street that dates to the 1880s or 1890s. Hebert Street was an early residential street in this area, and many German immigrants built small houses with garden setbacks during the 1850s and 1860s. In the 1880s and 1890s, most of the smaller homes were demolished for the construction of two- and two-and-a-half-story tenements and townhouses. Remarkably, no demolition has taken place on this block since the nineteenth century, and there are no vacant lots or gaps in its two street faces. In Old North St. Louis, this may be the most dense block with admirable rehabilitation activity.
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