File:GV Grantwood Lane number 11.jpg

English: The Richard Mederacke Realty and Building Company started developing the Grantwood Terrace subdivision adjacent to the August Busch Sr. estate on Gravois Road in south St. Louis County in the late 1920s (St. Louis Post-Dispatch, July 15, 1928, page 1B). The tract had been part of the original Whitehaven Plantation, having subsequently been owned successively by General US Grant, WH Vanderbilt, and ex-Confederate captain Luther Conn, who would eventually sell parts to Busch, Henry Weber's nursery, and real-estate developer Albert Wenzlick (St. Louis Post-Dispatch, December 6, 1889, page 5). Mederacke's tract and subdivision would ultimately become modern-day Grantwood Village, MO. This house at 11 Grantwood Lane (27 Grantwood Terrace before the re-addressing of 1939-1940) was built in 1928 (St. Louis County Real Estate records) and purchased by Mr. and Mrs. Joseph E. Mollmann in the early 1930s (Grantwoodians record book I; US Census 1940, enumeration district 95-131). A German-American, Mollmann was a longtime manager at Campbell Iron Company on Cass Avenue in north St. Louis, where a number of his family were employed, including his father Herman, who was a director and secretary of the company (St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Oct 15, 1902, p 5, Apr 16, 1924, p 29; Gould's St. Louis Directory 1910, pp 1432). The Mollmanns would live in this house until their deaths: Joseph in 1957 and his wife Marie in 1970 (MO Sec State records office). Photo taken from the public street.