I was driving down Washington Terrace this morning and noticed the fine house at 41 Washington Terrace. It thought is was unique in its design and seemed sort of Frank Lloyd Wrightish. Coming home I looked in the book, Architecture of the Private Streets of St. Louis, written by Charles Savage. He states:
"Washington Terrace can boast of two of the rare private place commissions of Isaac Taylor's firm. Taylor was fortunate in securing his designer Oscar Enders, who had been working in Chicago and was also aware of the new Austrian ideas. The Chauncey Ladd house, 1905, at No. 41 is unique in St. Louis; its three-story facade suggests the affinities between the Sezession and the Chicago Prairie School."
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