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Originally Posted by GaylordWilshire
While in the 1890s there was a Laclede House apartment building at 713 S Main St, it seems that the Laclede in the picture was at 318 Crocker St. The house at this address appears to have
had several names before it was called the Laclede, among them the Palace and the Oatka. It seems to have only been called the Laclede for a short time, first appearing in the 1911 city
directory; a few years later it was called the Kingsbury, the contents of which--including "a good talking parrot and cage"--were apparently auctioned off in February 1917.
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Was Crocker within one of the 1924 plague districts? So much housing was demolished then making way for more manufacturing and warehousing in the later 1920's. I cannot find a decent map.
This one's hopeless if one's looking for a particular address:
http://www.oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/...j3/?brand=oac4