Scott Joplin lived in a second-floor apartment in this house at 2658 Morgan Street (now Delmar Boulevard) in St. Louis from about 1901 to 1902. His first wife, Belle Jones Joplin, lived there with him. Together they had a child who died shortly after birth. The Joplins separated after the baby’s death.

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