In 1930, Dr. Richard Kring moved his medical office and pharmacy to 2201 Cherokee. Kring, who had lived and worked for years in the Soulard neighborhood, was the American-born son of German immigrants, while many of his neighbors on Cherokee Street were foreign-born. Across the street at 2200 Cherokee Street, Frank Pietras, a native of Poland who immigrated to the United States in 1912, ran a grocery store with his wife Elizabeth living in the apartment above; they paid $72 monthly rent for the first floor commercial space and their second floor home. At 2216 Cherokee, natives of Russia ran a dry goods store, and shopkeeper Henry Cohen, who had come to America in 1904, said his native language before emigrating from Russia was "Hebrew." This block was also home to natives of Hungary, Switzerland, Germany, and Yugoslavia, while other blocks of Cherokee Street's Antique Row in 1930 housed emigrants from Belgium, Croatia, Austria, Bohemia, Lituania, Rumania, Turkey, and Germany.
