Alvin Droste, after working for many years as a journeyman carpenter, went into business for himself in 1933. He established himself as a quality contractor and craftsman. The company continued even through the war with maintenance construction, and with help of his oldest son, Robert. After serving in the war Raymond, his second son, joined the company. In the following years, the company's main business was new custom homes.
In 1959 the company was fully incorporated and Raymond was named president. The company mainly built custom homes, but started building more commercial buildings in the 1970's.
During 1974 Jim and Steve Droste started working as journeymen carpenters for their father, Ray, and Uncle Robert. This was the official beginning of what was the third generation in the company.
In 1982 Ray, Jim and Steve bought out Robert and became equal partners with Ray maintaining his role as president. The company was just on the recovery from the recession of the late 70's and early 80's. By 1983, things had started back very well in commercial construction and in 1986 new housing took off.
In 1989 Ray retired and Jim became president, and Steve became vice-president.
These years have shown good times with many major projects to keep the company work load steady and quality consistent. The years of experience, hard work and pride in the City and County of St. Charles has provided a good living for our families. We hope this will continue for years to come.
