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Wildwood House (Ferguson, Missouri)

Wildwood House
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Wildwood House (Ferguson, Missouri) is located in Missouri
Wildwood House (Ferguson, Missouri)
Location within Missouri
Wildwood House (Ferguson, Missouri) is located in the United States
Wildwood House (Ferguson, Missouri)
Location within the United States
Location40 Dames Court, Ferguson, Missouri
Coordinates38°44′42″N 90°17′30″W / 38.74500°N 90.29167°W / 38.74500; -90.29167
Built1857
Architectural styleItalianate
NRHP reference No.06000234[1]
Added to NRHPApril 5, 2006

Wildwood House in Ferguson, Missouri is an Italianate style house built in 1857. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.[1]

It is a rectangular two-story, 44-by-36-foot (13 m × 11 m) white-painted brick masonry Italianate house. It has a low hipped, metal-clad roof, and four chimneys.[2] It was built for Major Joseph LaMotte and his wife Ellen Chambers LaMotte, to serve as a country showplace home. The Hartnett Place subdivision was built around it in 1956.[3]

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  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. ↑ "wildwood-house.pdf" (PDF). United States Department of the Interior National Park Service. February 16, 2006. Retrieved March 1, 2026.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  3. ↑ Esley Hamilton (June 1, 2005). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Wildwood House / LaMotte, Joseph and Elen Chambers, House" (PDF). State of Missouri. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 15, 2017. Retrieved March 20, 2017. With seven photos from c.2005.