Photograph of Theodore A. Pappas House — Photograph by LittleT889, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Pappas, Theodore, A., House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

From the record

“Pappas House is a Usonian house in Town and Country, Missouri, United States. Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, the Pappas House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.”
Wikipedia article Theodore A. Pappas House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 663 National Register listings published here for St. Louis County · listed in 1979 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 865 Masonridge Rd., St. Louis, 63141
When was it listed? February 1979
Category. building
Township. Missouri River township
Architect. Frank Lloyd Wright
National Register reference number. 79003208 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Pappas, Theodore, A., House: 15 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Unknown - Clay	Clay	Past Producer
Creve Coeur Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Fern Ridge Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Kempf Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown - Ls	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown - Ls	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown - Ls	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown - Ls	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown - Ls	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown - Ls	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in St. Louis County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
Jarville	2.0 miles	1984
The Van Raalte Residence	2.0 miles	2025
Old Stone Church	2.3 miles	1973
Manchester Methodist Episcopal Church	3.2 miles	1983
Ladue Estates	3.3 miles	2010
Henry Avenue Historic District	3.4 miles	2003

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 79003208 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
St. Louis County	All 663 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.