Limited Edition Print 55/100

Please look carefully at the pictures as they are part of the description. 

Hand Signed (Goree) & Numbered

Image Dimensions are  4½" x 6½" 

Dimensions with the Matte are 9¾"  x 10¼"

  Presented under a cream matte, glass pane and goldtone frame

Professionally packaged and shipped in special wrapping and boxing to protect and preserve the artwork in transit delivered safely.

Please look carefully at the pictures as they are part of the description. From a smoke free home.

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ABOUT THE PLACE

Legend has it that the Mother-In-Law House, at 500 South Main Street in St. Charles, Missouri was built by Francis X. Kremer in 1860. Because his young bride from Germany missed her mother, Kremer built the house with one side for himself and his wife, and the other side for his mother-in-law. To welcome her from Germany, Kremer invited the residents of St. Charles to a street party with a brass band. He presented his mother-in-law with a key to her half of the house, with the humorous provision that she stay on her side.

For years, this story was told in guide books, by tour guides and by the owners of the Mother-In-Law House, which was reputed to be the first "double house" in St. Charles. However, the Mother-In-Law House story may indeed be legend.

Kremer's bride, Minna Carolina Becker, was born in Missouri – not Germany – on January 13, 1837. The two were married in St. Charles County on July 27, 1855. Census records from 1860, 1870 and 1880 show the Kremers living in St. Charles with only their children – and no mother-in-law.

Researcher Mitzi Smith found that in 1865, Kremer built his St. Charles home at 514 South Main – not at the 500 address. In 1866, he bought a warehouse at 500 South Main, which he used to store grain for his flour mill. In 1876, after the warehouse was destroyed by a tornado, Kremer rebuilt it as a two-story brick building. The warehouse was converted into tenements before the turn of the century.