Name/Title
Asa Overall's homeEntry/Object ID
2003.010.013Description
Asa Nathaniel Overall was prominent in the civic life of St. Charles. He traveled to Yale in New Haven, most of the way by boat and stage coach and graduated there in law in 1851. Back in St. Charles he was successively Recorder, Assessor, Mayor and member of the City Council.
Family files record that he built a home in the 1850s at Clark and Sixth in St. Charles, "where he lived until his death." (See Overall Collection, #6) Jennie Overall Tyree remembered her home as "having an orchard with 15 or 20 kinds of grapes: big, little, white, coloted, egg-shaped; there were apple, peach and a half dozen kinds of cherry trees; there were read raspberries, rhubarb, sage and parsley. There were evergreens, chestnut trees, a catalpa, a salt cedar and a lovely wisteria vine. Dividing the terrace from the gardens were beds of flowers for picking.
"The house was built to stand forever, with stone coping for windows and doors, top and bottom, a deep dry cellar, marble mantels (in 7 rooms) and embossed glass on side front of entrance. Inside the parlor had a white marble mantel, pier glass with rose and gold frame reaches to the ceiling. Furniture was imported rosewood in the style of Louis XV - a long sofa, two arm chairs, 4 side chairs. Curtains of heavy rep silk at 4 windows, hanging from ceiling to floor, with borad stripes of flowers, between narrow stripes of solid color. All lined with sateen.
Bedrooms had imported walnut furniture. The dining room was what we call now `Captain's Style.'"
He built a home during the Civil War where the family lived until 1876. In 1929 it was described as being located on Highway 40, just this side of Oak Grove.The home,then the home of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Robbins, burned in February, 1929.
An Overall farm "where Asa Overall lived for a time, about one-fourth mile from St. Charles, Missouri" is shown in the Overall collection (#298).Create Date
April 11, 2011Update Date
April 11, 2011