St. Louis Region
The Schowengerdt House gives Warrenton a preserved home base
The Schowengerdt House in Warrenton is a National Register-listed home now tied to Warren County history and local research.
Warrenton’s history is not only courthouse or highway history. The Schowengerdt House gives the county a preserved home-place anchor on East Boonslick Road.
Missouri State Parks hosts the National Register material for the Ernst Schowengerdt House. The Warren County Historical Society says the house was built in 1866 for Ernst Schowengerdt and his wife Elesebet, was listed on the National Register in 1980, and later came to the historical society through the Schowengerdt trust.
For a Warren County reader, the house is useful color because it ties local family history, German-settlement threads, and present-day historical research to one Warrenton address. It also gives the county page a human-scale place beyond offices and tax records.
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