D-299

Owners: George C. and Jean H. Willson, whose primary residence was in St. Louis.
              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