Bill Kirchoff grew up on a 33-acre farm his grandfather purchased for $3,600 in 1906. Near what is now Creve Coeur Park in Maryland Heights, it had a small pasture, but it was developed as an orchard ...
It was a plain, small, rectangular wood cabin, only 18 feet long and 12 feet wide, that could sleep five people, comfortably or uncomfortably. Plain wood siding, no windows, and one door plus a little ...