Shelley House

4600 Labadie Ave., St. Louis (Independent City), Missouri. County/parish: St. Louis.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places April 18, 1988. NRIS 88000437.

1 contributing building.

Also known as:

  • Shelley,J. D. and E.,Home
  • Shelley v. Kraemer House

From Wikipedia:

Shelley House (St. Louis, Missouri)

The Shelley House is a historic house at 4600 Labadie Avenue in St. Louis, Missouri. Built in 1906, this duplex was the focus of the 1948 United States Supreme Court case Shelley v. Kraemer, which ruled that judicial enforcement by state courts of racially restrictive covenants violated the Constitution. The house was designated a National Historic Landmark on December 14, 1990.

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National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63818188

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