It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.

[1] It is a two-story, 44-by-36-foot (13 m × 11 m) brick masonry Italianate house.

It was built for Major Joseph LaMotte and his wife Ellen Chambers LaMotte, to serve as a country showplace home.

The Hartnett Place subdivision was built around it in 1956.

This article about a property in St. Louis County, Missouri on the National Register of Historic Places is a stub.