At home with Jim Roache and Cheryl Rossman of Lafayette Square
Jim Roache and Cheryl Rossman of Lafayette Square will have their historic home featured in the 最新杏吧原创 neighborhood鈥檚 Spring Home and Garden Tour for the first time.
Jim Roche聽and Cheryl Rossman of Lafayette Square, photographed on Sunday, May 24, 2026, will have their historic home聽featured in the 最新杏吧原创 neighborhood鈥檚 Spring Home and Garden Tour this year.
The parlor features one of the home鈥檚 ornate fireplaces, framed in hand-carved wood and antique tiles. The grand piano was one of the pieces that was sold with the house. Rossman鈥檚 favorite feature of the home is the incredible light that pours through the tall, rounded front windows.
Jim Roche and Cheryl Rossman of Lafayette Square will have their historic home, photographed on Sunday, May 24, 2026, ffeatured in the 最新杏吧原创 neighborhood鈥檚 Spring Home and Garden Tour this year. Pictured is the living room.
Jim Roche and Cheryl Rossman of Lafayette Square will have their historic home, photographed on Sunday, May 24, 2026, featured in the 最新杏吧原创 neighborhood鈥檚 Spring Home and Garden Tour this year.聽Pictured is their living room.
Jim Roche and Cheryl Rossman of Lafayette Square will have their historic home, photographed on Sunday, May 24, 2026, featured in the 最新杏吧原创 neighborhood鈥檚 Spring Home and Garden Tour this year.聽Pictured is the living room.
Jim Roche聽and Cheryl Rossman of Lafayette Square will have their historic home, photographed on Sunday, May 24, 2026, featured in the 最新杏吧原创 neighborhood鈥檚 Spring Home and Garden Tour this year. Pictured is the living room.
Jim Roche and Cheryl Rossman of Lafayette Square will have their historic home, photographed on Sunday, May 24, 2026, featured in the 最新杏吧原创 neighborhood鈥檚 Spring Home and Garden Tour this year.聽聽Pictured is a historical photo of the home鈥檚 first family member.
Jim Roche and Cheryl Rossman of Lafayette Square will have their historic home, photographed on Sunday, May 24, 2026, featured in the 最新杏吧原创 neighborhood鈥檚 Spring Home and Garden Tour this year.聽Pictured is the living room fireplace.
Jim Roche and Cheryl Rossman of Lafayette Square will have their historic home, photographed on Sunday, May 24, 2026, featured in the 最新杏吧原创 neighborhood鈥檚 Spring Home and Garden Tour this year.聽They have even kept the original mirror above the fireplace mantle in the living room. It is partly worn away to reveal old newspaper clippings behind it.
Jim Roche and Cheryl Rossman of Lafayette Square will have their historic home, photographed on Sunday, May 24, 2026, featured in the 最新杏吧原创 neighborhood鈥檚 Spring Home and Garden Tour this year.聽Pictured is a secondary vestibule.
Rossman repainted this ceiling art surrounding a chandelier believed to have been added in the 1930s.
Roche and Rossman have painstakingly worked to restore and preserve the home鈥檚 original millwork, including the beautiful fretwork piece between the foyer and staircase.
An enormous original stained-glass window on the staircase landing is the centerpiece of the home, bathing the space in warm light throughout the day.
Jim Roche and Cheryl Rossman of Lafayette Square will have their historic home, photographed on Sunday, May 24, 2026, featured in the 最新杏吧原创 neighborhood鈥檚 Spring Home and Garden Tour this year.聽Pictured is the main staircase landing.
Jim Roche and Cheryl Rossman of Lafayette Square will have their historic home, photographed on Sunday, May 24, 2026, featured in the 最新杏吧原创 neighborhood鈥檚 Spring Home and Garden Tour this year.聽聽Pictured is Jim鈥檚 office.
Roche鈥檚 home office is opposite the parlor and features the other set of rounded turret windows overlooking Lafayette Park. 鈥淚 love sitting on the couch in this room and looking outside,鈥 Rossman says.
Jim Roche and Cheryl Rossman of Lafayette Square will have their historic home, photographed on Sunday, May 24, 2026, featured in the 最新杏吧原创 neighborhood鈥檚 Spring Home and Garden Tour this year.聽Pictured is Jim鈥檚 office.
Jim Roche and Cheryl Rossman of Lafayette Square will have their historic home, photographed on Sunday, May 24, 2026, featured in the 最新杏吧原创 neighborhood鈥檚 Spring Home and Garden Tour this year.聽Pictured is Jim鈥檚 office.
Jim Roche and Cheryl Rossman of Lafayette Square will have their historic home, photographed on Sunday, May 24, 2026, featured in the 最新杏吧原创 neighborhood鈥檚 Spring Home and Garden Tour this year.聽Pictured is the main main foyer.
Jim Roche and Cheryl Rossman of Lafayette Square will have their historic home, photographed on Sunday, May 24, 2026, featured in the 最新杏吧原创 neighborhood鈥檚 Spring Home and Garden Tour this year.聽Pictured is Jim鈥檚 office.
Jim Roche and Cheryl Rossman of Lafayette Square will have their historic home, photographed on Sunday, May 24, 2026, featured in the 最新杏吧原创 neighborhood鈥檚 Spring Home and Garden Tour this year.聽聽Pictured is the kitchen.
Jim Roche and Cheryl Rossman of Lafayette Square will have their historic home, photographed on Sunday, May 24, 2026, featured in the 最新杏吧原创 neighborhood鈥檚 Spring Home and Garden Tour this year.聽Pictured is the kitchen.
Roche and Rossman completed a full kitchen remodel in 2022, carefully designing the modern kitchen with respect to the home鈥檚 history.
Jim Roche and Cheryl Rossman of Lafayette Square will have their historic home, photographed on Sunday, May 24, 2026, featured in the 最新杏吧原创 neighborhood鈥檚 Spring Home and Garden Tour this year.聽聽Pictured is the kitchen.
Jim Roche and Cheryl Rossman of Lafayette Square will have their historic home, photographed on Sunday, May 24, 2026, featured in the 最新杏吧原创 neighborhood鈥檚 Spring Home and Garden Tour this year.聽Pictured is their foyer and main staircase.
Jim Roche and Cheryl Rossman of Lafayette Square will have their historic home, photographed on Sunday, May 24, 2026, featured in the 最新杏吧原创 neighborhood鈥檚 Spring Home and Garden Tour this year.聽聽Pictured is the main main foyer.
聽Known as 鈥淭he Link House,鈥 the Richardson Romanesque Revival style home was designed by Edmund Jungenfeld and built in 1895 for J. Ernst Link, a German immigrant and prominent local brewer. It stands out for its unique stone fa莽ade and twin turrets.
The dining room is the largest room on the main floor and features original hardwood floors, crown molding and a small stained glass window.
Jim Roche and Cheryl Rossman of Lafayette Square will have their historic home, photographed on Sunday, May 24, 2026, featured in the 最新杏吧原创 neighborhood鈥檚 Spring Home and Garden Tour this year.聽聽Pictured is the dining room.
Jim Roche and Cheryl Rossman of Lafayette Square will have their historic home, photographed on Sunday, May 24, 2026, featured in the 最新杏吧原创 neighborhood鈥檚 Spring Home and Garden Tour this year.聽Pictured is the dining room.
Jim Roche and Cheryl Rossman of Lafayette Square will have their historic home, photographed on Sunday, May 24, 2026, featured in the 最新杏吧原创 neighborhood鈥檚 Spring Home and Garden Tour this year.聽聽Pictured is the exterior.
Jim Roche and Cheryl Rossman of Lafayette Square, photographed on Sunday, May 24, 2026, will have their historic home ffeatured in the 最新杏吧原创 neighborhood鈥檚 Spring Home and Garden Tour this year.
This three-season sun room is an addition off the kitchen. Roche and Rossman added a deck behind it overlooking the backyard.
Jim Roche and Cheryl Rossman of Lafayette Square will have their historic home, photographed on Sunday, May 24, 2026, featured in the 最新杏吧原创 neighborhood鈥檚 Spring Home and Garden Tour this year.聽Pictured is the backyard.
Jim Roche and Cheryl Rossman's home with be on the Lafayette Square Home and Garden Tour.聽
After culling through tons of artifacts and furnishings that were sold with the house, Rossman curated a small 鈥渉ouse museum鈥 in the basement with some of the treasures they found, including a small antique stove and icebox that was in one of the rooms when the home was a Depression-era boarding house.
Jim Roche and Cheryl Rossman of Lafayette Square will have their historic home, photographed on Sunday, May 24, 2026, featured in the 最新杏吧原创 neighborhood鈥檚 Spring Home and Garden Tour this year.聽Pictured is the artifact museum Cheryl created.
Jim Roche and Cheryl Rossman of Lafayette Square will have their historic home, photographed on Sunday, May 24, 2026, featured in the 最新杏吧原创 neighborhood鈥檚 Spring Home and Garden Tour this year.聽Pictured is the artifact museum Cheryl created.
Christian Gooden | Post-Dispatch
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One of Lafayette Square鈥檚 most distinctive homes, known as 鈥淭he Link House,鈥 will open its doors to the public for the first time on this year鈥檚 Lafayette Square Spring Home and Garden Tour on June 6-7.
