Photos: At Home with the Bowers of Bridgeton
Linda and Conrad Bowers moved into their current home in Bridgeton in 2002. It is the third house in Bridgeton for the couple. They built an addition to the home which was completed in 2006. Photos by Hillary Levin
At Home with the Bowers
A solarium runs across the front exterior of the Bowerses’ house. Before the renovations, sunlight that hit the solarium’s wall of windows was the only source of heat for the house.
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In the solarium, Linda Bowers grows orchids, small trees and night blooming cereus flowers. Three of the house’s bedrooms open up to the solarium on the second floor.
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Linda and Conrad Bowers have lived in their home in Bridgeton since 2002, photographed Thursday, March 4, 2021. Photo by Hillary Levin, hlevin@post-dispatch.com
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Bradley Bowers built an entirely new kitchen when he designed the addition. The Bowerses wanted an open space they could use for entertaining.
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The kitchen in the addition in the Bridgeton home of Linda and Conrad Bowers, Thursday, March 4, 2021. Photo by Hillary Levin, hlevin@post-dispatch.com
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The master bedroom in the Bridgeton home of Linda and Conrad Bowers, Thursday, March 4, 2021. Photo by Hillary Levin, hlevin@post-dispatch.com
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The collection of shot glasses on display in the living room of the Bridgeton home of Linda and Conrad Bowers belongs to Conrad, who used to travel a lot and picked up shot glasses from many of his destinations, seen Thursday, March 4, 2021. Photo by Hillary Levin, hlevin@post-dispatch.com
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The library in the Bridgeton home of Linda and Conrad Bowers, Thursday, March 4, 2021. Photo by Hillary Levin, hlevin@post-dispatch.com
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This chair in the living room of the Bridgeton home of Linda and Conrad Bowers belonged to Conrad's grandfather. It features a carved animal head at the end of each arm, seen Thursday, March 4, 2021. Photo by Hillary Levin, hlevin@post-dispatch.com
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The tablecloth on the dining room table of Linda and Conrad Bowers' Bridgeton home was crocheted in 1940 by Linda Bowers' mother. Photo by Hillary Levin, hlevin@post-dispatch.com
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The finished basement recreation room in the Bridgeton home of Linda and Conrad Bowers, Thursday, March 4, 2021. Photo by Hillary Levin, hlevin@post-dispatch.com
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The kitchen leads to the house’s library and master bedroom. Bradley Bowers designed much of his parent’s furniture including their kitchen table.
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The spinning wheel in the living room of the Bridgeton home of Linda and Conrad Bowers, has been in Linda's family for many years, seen Thursday, March 4, 2021. Photo by Hillary Levin, hlevin@post-dispatch.com
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Art fills the Bridgeton home of Linda and Conrad Bowers, Thursday, March 4, 2021. Linda is a former art teacher in the Pattonville district. Their son, Bradley, is an artist who created the many vessels, center, seen around their home. Photo by Hillary Levin, hlevin@post-dispatch.com
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One of the three guest bedrooms that were original to the house. Each bedroom features a loft and ladder where Linda Bowers likes to display quilts.
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Art fills the Bridgeton home of Linda and Conrad Bowers, Thursday, March 4, 2021. Linda is a former art teacher in the Pattonville district. She collects lizards; this one was a gift and sits perched on a mailbox decorated with a mosaic. Photo by Hillary Levin, hlevin@post-dispatch.com
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The player piano in the Bridgeton home of Linda and Conrad Bowers was rebuilt in the 1990s and is functional, seen Thursday, March 4, 2021. Photo by Hillary Levin, hlevin@post-dispatch.com
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The living room is one of the only rooms on the ground floor that wasn’t extended during the renovations. Bradley Bowers made an oak bookshelf above the door to the solarium that runs across the living and dining room walls.
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Linda Bowers keeps a collection of lizards in a curio display in the master bedroom, Thursday, March 4, 2021. Photo by Hillary Levin, hlevin@post-dispatch.com
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A poster board of pictures shows the progression of the addition and renovations the Bowers made to their home in Bridgeton from 2002-2006, seen Thursday, March 4, 2021. Photo by Hillary Levin, hlevin@post-dispatch.com
“It’s an art teacher’s house,” Linda Bowers says. “It has more personality than any house in the neighborhood.”