Field, Eugene, House

634 S. Broadway, St. Louis (Independent City), Missouri. County/parish: St. Louis.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places August 19, 1975. NRIS 75002137.

1 contributing building.

From Wikipedia:

Eugene Field House (St. Louis)

The Eugene Field House is a historic house museum in St. Louis, Missouri. Built in 1845, it was the home of Roswell Field, an attorney for Dred Scott in the landmark Dred Scott v. Sandford court case. Field's son, Eugene Field, was raised there and became a noted writer of children's stories. A National Historic Landmark, it is now a museum known as the Field House Museum. (Previously known as The Eugene Field House & St. Louis Toy Museum.)

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National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63820764

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