Background
Jerome B. Legg was born in 1838 at Schuyler County, illinous, United States.
Jerome B. Legg was born in 1838 at Schuyler County, illinous, United States.
He settled in St. Louis in 1867 and began his career as draftsman for George I. Barnett, then the leading architect in the city. Two years later he was engaged to superintend the construction of the Centenary Methodist Church at Pine and 16th Street of which Thomas Dixon of Baltimore was the architect.
Mr Legg's first architectural work, the Exposition Building on Olive (betwen 13th and 14th Streets) was designed about 1880, and shortly after he made extensive alterations and additions to the Capitol Building at Jefferson City, built some forty years before from plans of the English-born architect, A. Stephen Hills. Among other public works ascribed to Mr. Legg are the Cenenary Hospital on Chestnut Street, St. Louis, and the new Court House at St. Charles, Mo.