ABOUT US
The Estates at Westchester Farm is located in Weldon Spring, a residential community in St. Charles County and an extended suburb of St. Louis, Missouri. Weldon Spring is close to the Missouri River, Augusta Wine Region and the famous Katy Trail.
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Hayden Homes, Inc. began work on our subdivision in the early 1990's. Hayden Homes, Inc., founded in 1977, is a builder/developer of new home communities in the St. Louis metropolitan area. Hayden, which has built over 3,500 homes in 50 new home communities, specializes in the move-up market from the $320,000s to more than $2 million, including both single-family homes and condominium-style villas.
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Winner of the BRAVO Neighborhood Award - The Estates at Westchester Farm, 2002
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The Home Builders Association of Greater St. Louis developed the BRAVO Awards in 1995/96 to honor HBA builders that have created beautiful neighborhoods and to show what happens when these communities "grow up." In the nine years this award program has been in existence, Hayden Homes has garnered eight of these highly coveted awards, proof that Hayden communities and homes retain their beauty and value many years after they are sold and built.
We are proud we are a part of this prestigious award and a member of the Hayden Homes team.
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History of The Estates at Westchester Farm Subdivision
Research performed by Jenne Long (Westchester Farm)
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Prior to statehood in 1820, Missouri was a part of the Upper Louisiana Territory under Spanish, and then French rule. In 1801, a Dutch land speculator, Arend Rutgers, received 7,055 arpents (about 5,900 acres) known as Land Grant #1669, Township 46, Ranges 2 and 3 in what was then Dardenne Township in the district of St. Charles. According to "Pioneer Families of Missouri", in return for this land grant, Rutgers was to build a saw and grist mill, and open a store on Dardenne Creek, not far from where Cottleville stands now. He built several mills before he got one to stand. It was a very expensive endeavor. In a petition dated December 5, 1805, to the U.S. congress by the inhabitants of the Province of Upper Louisiana asking for 1 mile square of land were other prominent names in the St. Charles area: Daniel Boone, Francis Howell, Andrew Zumwalt, Oliver and Warren Cottle, and George and Pieter Hoffman.
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It appears from land records at the St. Charles County Recorder of Deeds Office that in 1812, 100 acres of Arend Rutgers' land was sold to George Hoffman Sr. In 1827; Mr. Hoffman sold a part of his holdings to John M. McMillen. Eventually the land was reverted back to the Hoffman family, life-long residents of St. Charles County.
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Hayden Homes, Inc. purchased part of the land owned by Orville Hoffman (he inherited it from his parents William H. and Anna Hoffman) and began work on our subdivision in the early 1990's. The survey maps of The Estates at Westchester Farm on file at the Recorder's Office show 3 plats with the following acreage: Plat 1 has 21.53 acres, Plat 2 has 12.58 acres, and Plat 3 has 27.353 acres. It also reads as part of the heading "Same as marked and designated on the plat attached to Commissioner's report in the partition among the heirs of John M. McMillen, deceased, being part of Survey 1669."
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Very early histories of the area can be found at the Kathryn Linneman branch of the St. Charles City-County Library on Elm Street in their Local History department. Information on this article was gleaned from land and deed records at the Recorder of Deeds Office census and marriage records, "Pioneers of Missouri" by Byron, and "Missouri History" by Hauck.