Francis Brown House

This 1879 Italianate mansion was built for Irish merchant Francis Browne and his first wife Lucy Littleton, both of County Cork, Ireland.  Sadly, Lucy died on December 5, 1880, just after this house was completed.  Francis remarried Mary A. Davis in 1885, he sold the house to Brigadier General James Craig on June 21, 1884. 

James Craig was a Civil War Union officer, a U.S. Congressman, Missouri Attorney General and member of the State House of Representatives. 

The house retains it ornate terra cotta window hoods and paired corbels that support the eaves of the house with frieze panels between.  The house has 14 rooms with twelve foot ceilings and three of the six original fireplaces.

Go around the corner, walking besides the Francis Brown House to the next street to find the Hax House on the northeast corner of 11th and Sylvanie.