DOGTOWN CENTURY HOME PROJECT

There are many standing century houses in Dogtown. The Dogtown Historical Society is concerned to identify these, document them as century houses and then to have plaques mounted on these homes. The reason that this project seems so important to this history of Dogtown is that the coming of the World's Fair in 1904, brings with it a significant change in Dogtown's history. For those working at and on the Fair, that change comes a few years before the Fair itself. Thus we have chosen the nice round numbered year of 1900 to focus on.

After that period Dogtown had a population boom that forever changed it. Thus in documenting the century houses at we turn not only the century, but the millenium.

Below are various files which the Century Home Committee of the Dogtown Historical Society have prepared in this work.

• Fully recognized and verified century homes   The homes on these lists have been researched by the Century Home Committee and verified as century homes. The Dogtown Historical Society has then accepted these homes as fully verified century homes.

• List of SUSPECTED century homes, but with problems with verification    These are homes that are listed in the 1900 Federal Census and which, looking at the home at this address today, the home appears as thought it MIGHT be a century home. However, the records of St. Louis City do not support this claim. Either, the city has no records listed on the date of the home, or it lists the home as being built at a later date. These homes will require special research to get the necessary data to justify verification.

• The Century Home Committee   A list of the current members of the Century Home Committee.

• Oldest documented standing home in Dogtown   The home at 1527 Tamm Ave., currently owned by Frank Seifred was built by John O'Gorman and has been documents by the Century Home Committee as being built in 1860. O'Gorman family history suggests an earlier date of 1852-54, but this earlier date has not yet been confirmed in city records.