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Building History

Tucker and Shields designed three houses at Hilltop between 1951-1957, this being the last. The house has a post and beam framing system with posts placed 8 feet on center. Interiors were meant to recall Japanese domestic interiors with dark wood structural members juxtaposed with light wall surfaces. Exterior landscaping, seen in the gravel garden paralleling the front walkway, also recalled Japanese domestic precedents.

The firm planned the house for John Clinton Denman, Sr., (born 12/12/1913 in Farmington, MO-d. 12/13/1994 in Bellevue, WA), a pilot for Northwest Airlines, and his wife, Edna Jean Gieselman, (born 12/18/1918 in Saint Louis, MO-d. 02/17/1988 in Bellevue, WA). They married on 04/02/1943 in Saint Louis, MO. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation Missouri State Archives; Jefferson City, MO, USA; Missouri Marriage Records [Microfilm], accessed 07/24/2019.) Edna passed away in 1988, but John remained in the house until at least 1992, and perhaps until his death in 1994.

The deed of the house was transferred to John C. Denman, Jr., on 12/14/1992. He sold it to Richard Thompson and Jasmine Rogers-Thompson on 10/02/1997 for $460,000. In 2019, the house was owned by Vicky L. and Philip C. Oxley, who bought it on 07/09/2003 for $700,000.

Building Notes

Originally, the Denmans maintained a significant art collection in the house.

In 2019, the house contained 2 bedrooms and 2 and 1/2 baths, with 1,570 square feet on the main floor and 1,570 square feet in the basement. The house occupied a 36,750-square-foot, .84-acre lot.