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Jacques Clamorgan
House

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[Block 26A]

Jacques Phillippe Clamorgan, who owned this entire block in 1804, was a prominent fur trader, land speculator and merchant. This stone house, which measured 35 x 20 feet, was one of several houses, structures, barns and outbuildings on this block.

Today, this block is in an area known as "Laclede's Landing" located to the north of the Gateway Arch grounds. It is bounded by modern First Street, Morgan Street, Second Street and Christy Street. An alley through the property is named "Clamorgan's Alley" in honor of the first owner.

The white building in the middle ground occupies the site of Jacques Clamorgan's Home. It is the Christian Peper Tobacco Company (Raeder Place) building, built in 1873 and one of the older surviving buildings in downtown St. Louis. This view was taken looking west from the "Commercial Alley" east of First and Morgan streets.

 

 

 

 

 

This modern view is taken looking directly northward from Washington Street through the center of the block once owned by Jacques Clamorgan. The street stretching northward from this point lies equidistant from First and Second streets, and is called "Clamorgan's Alley." It is one of the few direct references to Colonial St. Louis still remaining in the area of the original town site.

 

 

 

 

 

This plaque on the Morgan Street side of the Raeder Place Building discusses the Missouri Hotel, which occupied the site in 1820 and was the scene where Missouri's first state Constitution was drafted and adopted.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A view looking upward of the cast iron facade of the Raeder Place Building.

The site of the Jacques Clamorgan home is today occupied by the Christian Peper Tobacco Company (Raeder Place) Building, constructed in 1873. The lower level of the building today houses a restaurant called "The Spaghetti Factory." The Raeder Place Building has probably the best extant cast iron façade in the entire midwest. This view is taken looking southwestward from the corner of First and Morgan Streets.

 

 

 

 

 

Once the site of the Jacques Clamorgan estate at the corner of First and Christy (now called Lucas) streets, the area is now occupied by the brick building used as a headquaters by Bi-State Development Agency. This building was constructed in 1898.