Dr. John J. O'Brien House, 1232 Sutter Avenue,
Wellston, St. Louis County, MO
Photographer Theodore LaVack
September dated 1936
From The Library of Congress
Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record
Newspaper
advertisements in 1887, indicate the house was built new in
1886-1887. There would have been no slave labor at that
time. Dr. O'Brien was born 1845 Ireland, was not a slave owner.
Time and better information, indicate that the references to the
house having been "built
in the year 1819 and by slave labor " , are inaccurate. Bob Haefner
04/01/2007 |
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1876 Jul 13 Mike Duffy "The Man Who Claims to Have Been
Assaulted and Robbed at Seven-Mile House. . .He is Pronounced a
Drunken Imposter." St. Louis Globe Democrat . Dr. O'Brien and his
residence is mentioned. |
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1878 Aug 21 - "Horse thieves arrested,
Dr O'Brien's horses returned." O'brien's residence is
mentioned. |
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1887 May Dr. O'Brien House
just completed. Per newspaper advertisement. |
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Clipping |
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