Old House Journal

A 19TH-CENTURY LIFE of COMFORT

hen Gerry and Shirley Fisher moved to St. Louis in 1991, they had already restored two early-20th-century homes in Oklahoma City, and they were game to take on another project. They knew what they wanted: a house in a good neighborhood, something that needed restoration but with period details largely intact. When they found this 1892 house, its transitional architecture a blend of Victorian chateau and Colonial Revival, it fit the bill. It sits in the city’s historic Central West End on a street of similarly handsome houses of

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