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 51 Grantwood Lane (4 Grantwood Terrace before the re-addressing of 1939-1940) was built in 1928 (St. Louis County Real Estate records) for the Charles A. Hessler family (Grantwoodians record book I; US Census 1930, enumeration district 95-23). A German-American, Hessler was an executive in the textile industry, including as vice-president of the Alligator Oil Clothing Company (St. Louis Post-Dispatch, February 8, 1938, page 6B), a manufacturer of oil-impregnated waterproof cloth and clothing. In 1945, his daughter, Doris, would marry PFC Kenneth Duebelbeis, USMC, who grew up at 26 Grantwood Lane (Post-Dispatch, Dec 17, 1944, page 10G). Photo taken from the public street.