St. Louis Magazine

A NEW LEASE ON LIFE

Sarah Riley and Rob Monzyk weren't looking for the perfect house. They also weren't expecting to fall in love with a 116-year-old American Foursquare with a sagging first floor and daylight streaming through holes in the roof.

“We joke that it was a pile of bricks,” says Monzyk, a 40-year-old health care data scientist.

In 2019, the couple purchased the Central West End

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