Gustave Greystone-Meissner House, also known as Greystone and Evergreen Hill, is a historic home and national

historic district A historic district or heritage district is a section of a city which contains older buildings considered valuable for historical or architectural reasons. In some countries or jurisdictions, historic districts receive legal protection from c ...

located near Pevely, Jefferson County, Missouri. Greystone was built about 1845, and is a two-story, asymmetrical plan,

Gothic Revival Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic, neo-Gothic, or Gothick) is an architectural movement that began in the late 1740s in England. The movement gained momentum and expanded in the first half of the 19th century, as increasingly ...

style frame dwelling. It sits on a

limestone Limestone ( calcium carbonate ) is a type of carbonate sedimentary rock which is the main source of the material lime. It is composed mostly of the minerals calcite and aragonite, which are different crystal forms of . Limestone forms whe ...

block foundation and measures 48 feet, 1 1/2 inches, wide and 39 feet, 1 inch deep. It has a steeply pitched gable roof with dormers and features Carpenter Gothic wood cut-work, finials and drops. Also on the property is the contributing Gustave Meissner House. It was built in 1875, and is -story, "L"-shaped, frame dwelling with a steeply pitched cross-gable roof. (includes 19 photographs from 1974) It was listed on the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...

in 1974.

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* Historic American Buildings Survey in Missouri Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Missouri Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Missouri Gothic Revival architecture in Missouri Houses completed in 1845 Houses completed in 1875 Buildings and structures in Jefferson County, Missouri National Register of Historic Places in Jefferson County, Missouri {{JeffersonCountyMO-NRHP-stub