The Schneider House at 532 Magazine Avenue is a single-family dwelling with two accessory structures located on the back of the property. The property is not an individual historic landmark but contributes to the Sophienburg Hill Historic District.

The residence was originally built in 1910 by Edward F. Schneider (1861-1919) and Emma Maurer Schneider (1857-1935) adding to their considerable land holdings in the area. The home is a Traditional style single story structure with a covered front porch supported by wooden columns and bordered in white railing.

The exterior is clad in wooden siding and the original windows are intact. It has a gabled roof clad in corrugated metal. All three gables have cedar shingles. The primary entry consists of the original mahogany stained door with an oval window and fixed glass transom flanked on either side by matching glass sidelights.

The interior has the original yellow pine flooring throughout and the two bedrooms lack closets which was the style of the period. Edward also built two outbuildings at 532 consisting of a smokehouse and coach house at the rear of the property where they still stand today. Edward and Emma resided at the house and operated a dairy farm on adjacent acreage to the south of the residence.

The legal description of the property at 532 Magazine is “Lot 3 Schneider Addition”. Schneider Addition today comprises City Blocks 4066-4072 named after Edward Schneider. In 1917 the Schneiders sold the property to Henry Kruse when they moved across the street to a larger, newly constructed home at 563 Magazine Ave.

Edward and Emma resided at 563 until Edward’s death in January 1919 at the age of 53 at the height of the Swine Flu epidemic.

In 1919 Henry Kruse sold the house at 532 Magazine to H.W. Schmidt who later sold it to August Kluth in 1922. After August’s death in 1935 his widow, Emma Ida Elsemann Kluth, continued to live there until her death in 1952.

In 1953 the Kluth heirs sold the house to Marvin Koepp until his death in 1965. Marvin’s widow, Gertrude Leop Koepp, continued to live there until her death in 2000 when the Koepp heirs sold it to Jennifer Cuppetilli.