House Tour: 1908 Mansion in Compton Heights

I love touring fabulous houses, even if the only way I can see them is online. I’m betting that since you came to a site called “Hooked on Houses,” you do, too.

Here’s a 100-year old mansion in the Compton Heights neighborhood of St. Louis that has 4,400 sq ft with 5 bedrooms and 3.5 baths. When they say “they don’t make houses like they used to,” this is what they’re talking about.

It was impeccably restored and features stunning millwork, stained glass, original pocket doors, and seven original fireplaces. It’s on the market for $645,000.

To read more about the historic neighborhoods of downtown St. Louis, read my earlier post: Historic LaSalle Park. I toured about a dozen of the homes there last year and it was just about the most fun you could have without getting arrested for it.

(Look up: I took the photo used in the Hooked on Houses logo in a nearby neighborhood.)

If You’re Hooked on Old Houses:

• The Purple Victorian on Lane’s End Farm
• Columbia Tusculum’s Victorian Painted Ladies
• Walking and Gawking in Historic North Avondale
• 1908 Mitchell Mansion on Rose Hill
• The Spite House (only 7′ wide)
• Cobble Court
• Stokesay Court (from the film “Atonement”)
• 1908 Gaslight Mansion
• Mark Twain’s Mansion
• Frank Lloyd Wright’s William P. Boswell House
• Sears Modern Homes: House Kits from Catalogs
• Pheasant-Hill Farm (250 years old)