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Lisa/Sarpy
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Manuel Lisa/Dodier-Sarpy Residence. NW corner, Second and Myrtle
Photograph, ca. 1890 of daguerreotype, ca. 1850
daguerreotype courtesy of Missouri Historical Society

[Block 36A]

This house was built for the widow Dodier in 1766 and measured 25 x 20 feet. She moved from Fort de Chartres to St. Louis in 1765. By 1804 it was owned by Gregoire Sarpy, a pioneer fur trader. Sarpy was born in Fumel, Gascony, France in 1764 and came to St. Louis in 1786. His brothers Jean Baptiste, Silvestre and Pierre already lived in St. Louis when Sarpy arrived. Gregoire Sarpy married Pelagie Labbadie, daughter of Sylvestre Labbadie and Pelagie Chouteau (see Block 9), in 1797. Peter A. Sarpy was born here in 1805, and later had charge of the American Fur Company post at Bellevue, now Omaha, Nebraska. Gregoire Sarpy died in 1824. This house was later owned by the widow of the fur trader Manuel Lisa and was photographed before it was torn down in the 1850s.