George C. Willson was a St. Louis lawyer.
Location: 697327 4282439
Acreage: 52.11
Contract price: $32,000
Property condemned on March 31, 1941
Condemnation price: $5,100
Today: cellar depression, bricks, wisteria
For a view of Hamburg which includes this house, click here.
The last structure left standing in Hamburg, this building was destroyed by fire in the late 1980's. A few years earlier, an application was made to include this house on the National Register of Historic Places. To view this application, which includes a thorough history and several photographs of the house, click here. To read a newspaper account of the fire, click here.
The house in 1972 |