Purchase Price $75,000
3 bed · 2 bath · 1,900 sqft
A wonderful combination of space and affordability. This home has 3 bedrooms and 2 full baths; the main floor master bedroom has a bath and lots of closet space. Upstairs are two more bedrooms, a full bath, and lots more closet space. Formal dining room and living room have lovely beamed ceilings and wonderful natural woodwork. The large kitchen has new flooring.
Contact: Tracy Tietjens Team at ReeceNichols-Ide Capital
Call: 816-351-1868
House History & Gallery
In 1907, Jacob Yoss Jr. took out a building permit to build a frame residence on 24th street between Mitchell Ave. and Sacramento Street. In 1908, the charming home at 1309 S. 24th St. was complete and Jacob moved his extended family in. And Jacob never moved again; he died here in 1955.
Jacob Yoss Jr. emigrated from Switzerland in 1888 and worked throughout his life as a self-employed painter. In 1899 he married Emily Katherine Bammert, whose family had moved from Freemansburg, Pennsylvania and was living at 517 S. 11th St. The couple never had children but the house they built together on 24th St. was full of family. When they took up residence in 1908 they were joined in the house by Jacob’s niece Emily Meeder and shortly then joined by his father Jacob Yoss Sr. and George A. Bammert, Emily Yoss’s father.
These were hard working people who practiced the trades that made St. Joseph prosper in the beginning decades of the 20th century. Jacob Jr. was a painter; his father was a carpet weaver; Emily Yoss had worked as a seamstress before her marriage; her father was a blacksmith; and Emily Meeder worked as a seamstress in the R.L. McDonald factory while she trained to be a teacher.
The Yoss household was an active part of the large ethnically German population of St. Joseph. There are mentions in the newspapers of parties and varied types of social gatherings attended by the residents of 1309. Much of their lives centered around the First Evangelical Church located at 701 S. 16th St. (very close to Emily Bammert Yoss’s girlhood home). The church catered to the German population with German-language services on Sunday mornings and English language in the evening. Emily was president of the Women’s Missionary Society in 1915 and was active with that group well in to the 1940s. The church was only a bit over a mile from the Yoss House, and would have been a lovely walk through the growing neighborhoods.
As the years went on, the number of people living in the house diminished until December 1955 when Jacob died, leaving Emily on her own. She sold the house that had been her home for nearly 40 years and moved away. The house was purchased by Marvin Cresap and his wife Nettie. It is somehow quite appropriate that Marvin was a painter by trade.
Since then, the Yoss House at 1309 S. 24th Street has continued to provide a charming home for growing families in the midst of a thriving residential neighborhood.
