Pine Lawn Carriage House, 6292-94 Stillwell Drive, Pine Lawn, St. Louis County, MO

Significance: It is the last survivor of the suburban estates that once stretched from the western part of St. Louis through Normandy to Florissant, served after 1875 by the West End Narrow Gauge Railroad. The estate was first developed by Jane Finney after the death in 1858 of her husband, John Finney, a wholesale grocer, ship chandler and real estate developer. Josiah Alkire, another grocer, bought it in 1879 and made it his principle residence. He sold it in 1887 to Charles Clark, who had made a fortune in Montana silver mines and who lived on prestigious Vandeventer Place. Clark and his sons, who owned the estate until 1920, called in Clarkhurst." The date of the Carriage House is not known, but the mansarded Finney House it served was standing by 1875.
Survey number: HABS MO-1879