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“A generation comes and a generation goes . . .” and if you ask Rachelle Schneider (nee L’Ecuyer), a generation comes back again.
After a ten year sabbatical in New York City, Ms. Schneider returned to St. Louis this fall, bringing with her her husband Jonathan, a creative director, and their two young children.
The journey back began three years, following the death of her father Jim L’Ecuyer, the first Executive Director of the Skinker DeBaliviere Community Council. “I spent three months here helping my mother and when I went back to New York I felt very disconnected.
I wanted to live in a place where I could be with my family and be connected to a community.
I always felt that I was part of something special in Skinker DeBaliviere, even when I was just visiting.” While in New York, Rachelle Schneider initially worked for the city in its real estate sales. department. “If you wanted to buy the Brooklyn Bridge, I was the one to see,” she said, tongue in cheek.
Then Schneider landed a job as an Assistant Fund Manager at the Landmarks Conservancy, a position that put her in touch with community leaders and homeowners who wanted to restore historic homes. “I loved my job because it gave me the opportunity to help people and provide aid in maintaining historic neighborhoods.
While I was working for the Landmarks Conservancy, I became homesick.
I kept thinking I should be doing this in St. Louis.” Life is filled with twists and turns. Oddly enough (or perhaps not surprisingly), the Schneiders found themselves making a move to St. Louis and eventually buying a home in her old neighborhood, Skinker DeBaliviere. “Luckily we had some much needed guidance. At first, we looked at homes in West County. People kept saying, “AAA schools, AAA schools.” Perhaps it was divine intervention but on the same day the Schneiders were scheduled to look at four houses in Creve Coeur, Karleen Hoerr showed them a house on 61xx Kingsbury. “The house needed a lot of work but we couldn’t get it out of our heads.
The suburban homes and environment paled in comparison to what Skinker DeBaliviere had to offer.” Buying the home helped Rachelle Schneider to regain her focus and commitment to city living.
This in turn led her on a new quest.
In December, she earned her real estate license.
Then in January, she joined the Daniel B. Feinberg Real Estate Co., as their newest—and youngest—sales associate. “I have several goals,” Schneider said. “The main one is to educate home buyers about city living.
There are so many opportunities here and so many choices. People sometimes need the right person to guide them and, hopefully, that will be me.”
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Rachelle Schneider. Photographer not credited.
Originally published in The Times of Skinker-DeBaliviere, April–May 2000.
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