During her visit to a properly in Ladue two years ago, the architect Ann Wimsatt took it all in: the surrounding dense woods, a lovely tree-lined creek, that wraparound porch with—in her words—a South Pacific vibe. Set on a steep hill, the rambling 1930s shinglestyle house unfolds across a terrace. “It’s a powerful landscape, isn’t it?” says Wimsatt, the owner of Cite Studio, during an interview from her home in San Francisco earlier this year.
Back in 2021, when she met Dawn and Mark Sturmon at their house for the first time, the family
