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Shelley House

Saint Louis, United States of America

Shelley House

The Shelley House is a historic house at 4600 Labadie Avenue in St. Louis, Missouri. Built in 1906, this duplex was the focus of the 1948 United States Supreme Court case Shelley v. Kraemer, which ruled that judicial enforcement by state courts of racially restrictive covenants violated the Constitu

tion. The house was designated a National Historic Landmark on December 14, 1990.

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