Letter signed T.K. Skinker to wife. Mr. John Hancock Norton has arrived. I am now willing to call his Pa Father Norton. We are letting the organ contract to the Estey Organ Co. But the grandest church item is yet to come, and I tell it to you as a state secret. The Bishop has bought another lot and a half to add to the church property. It adjoins the lot on which St. Michaels stands, fronts 100 ft. on Wydown and runs clear through to Ellenwood Ave. where Cecil joins Ellenwood. The Lambert house is going to be an oddity. It will be 30 ft. front and 104 ft. deep, coming back almost to the dividing line between them and O’Neil. Under the north third and south third there will be a basement, but none under the middle third., 1913 July 28, Box: 2, Folder: 12. Thomas K. Skinker Family Papers, A1517. Missouri Historical Society Library and Research Center.

Letter signed T.K. Skinker to wife. Mr. John Hancock Norton has arrived. I am now willing to call his Pa Father Norton. We are letting the organ contract to the Estey Organ Co. But the grandest church item is yet to come, and I tell it to you as a state secret. The Bishop has bought another lot and a half to add to the church property. It adjoins the lot on which St. Michaels stands, fronts 100 ft. on Wydown and runs clear through to Ellenwood Ave. where Cecil joins Ellenwood. The Lambert house is going to be an oddity. It will be 30 ft. front and 104 ft. deep, coming back almost to the dividing line between them and O’Neil. Under the north third and south third there will be a basement, but none under the middle third., 1913 July 28, Box: 2, Folder: 12. Thomas K. Skinker Family Papers, A1517. Missouri Historical Society Library and Research Center. https://mohistory.mobiusconsortium.org/repositories/2/archival_objects/47559 Accessed September 19, 2024.