History comes in all shapes and sizes — including streets.
This Columbia Missourian article highlights the brick streets of Columbia with a map of their locations.
http://www.columbiamissourian.com/multimedia/graphic/2011/06/14/columbias-brick-streets-resurface/
One of the things I love about learning about Columbia and Boone County’s historic places is finding new ways to use this information.
This article notes that teachers can use historic places such as those in Columbia and Boone County to teach history.
A walk through downtown Columbia would allow teachers to discuss the importance of taverns (places to gather), the changes in commerce (the former dime stores), the changes electricity caused (why the Daniel Boone Tavern had skylights), the changes in technology (the former movie palaces), the current challenges of urban development (alleys and drainage issues) and the politics of today (the city fathers helped build the Hamilton-Brown Shoe Factory and then gave it to the company).
The list could go on endlessly. Read the article below and find out what they’re doing in Sioux City.
Here’s a link to a PowerPoint with photographs of this year’s Most Notable Properties.
Each year, the City of Columbia’s Historic Preservation Commission names several properties to its Most Notable Properties List. The purpose of the list is to acknowledge Columbia’s outstanding historic features.
This year five properties were named to the list:
901 E. Broadway, Haden Building, 1921. Now the site of Commerce Bank, this building is on the site where the Haden Opera house once stood and dates back to 1921. The two previous buildings on this site burned down.
1602 Hinkson Ave., Joseph and Mary Duncan House, circa 1906. Built for retired farmer Joseph W. Duncan, it may have been built from mail-order plans, an idea suggested, the article notes, due to the “refined style and unusual combination of architectural styles…”
601 W. Broadway, A Fredendahl House, circa 1920s. Owned today by Mike and Jewell Keevins, according to the article, the house was built by A. Fredendahl, owner of Columbia’s first department store, which was located at 19-25 S. Ninth Street. The first floor of that building remains, while the upper floors were removed during the 1950s.
1615 Business Loop 70 W., Columbia Municipal Airport, 1970s. Now Cosmo Park, it was once site of a 110-acre farm of Moss Jones, which then became the location of the Allton Flying Service owned and operated by John and James Allton. They sold the site to Columbia for a municipal airport around 1932. The city expanded the site and operated the 500-acre facility as an airport until the 1960s, the article notes, before opening the Columbia Regional Airport south of Columbia.
310 N. Providence Road, Douglass High School, 1917. Built to serve the city’s African-American population prior to the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court ruling outlawing segregation, today, the school serves is an integrated high school. The full, complex history of the school can be found here.
On Wednesday, Missouri Preservation will present the Preserve Missouri Award to John Ott for his renovation of the Berry Building, a former warehouse and grocery at 1025-33 Walnut Street.
Once nearly derelict, today the 33,000-square-foot building gleams with PS Gallery and Independent Staves, a firm that manufactures and sells wine and whiskey barrels all over the world, sharing the street level space. The first tenant was Wilson’s Fitness on the lower level and all 12 of the luxury loft apartments on the upper floors are leased.
Missouri Preservation is a nonprofit dedicated to historic preservation promotion, support and coordination. The event is sponsored by a number of firms including Commerce Bank and Murry’s Restaurant, and will include presentation ceremony, luncheon and keynote address by Lt. Governor Peter Kinder.
It’s the first time a Columbia building has been among the buildings honored by Missouri Preservation since 2008, when 1927 Central Dairy building was honored. The year prior, 2007, both the Howard Municipal Building and Gentry Buildings on Broadway were honored.
From 10 a.m. to noon on Saturday, Sept. 18, 2010, the Guitar Mansion, also known as Confederate Hill, will be available for viewing.
Built in about 1862, the house at 2815 Oakland Gravel Road will be auctioned off on October 18, 2010.
Today, the home is nestled among other housing areas, yet, the landscaping makes the house feel elegantly secluded.
The house has been vacant for some time, but it has been well cared for. Once slated to become a bed and breakfast, the house has a commercial grade kitchen and amazingly has retained much of the historic features.
The house is on the National Register of Historic Places. Read this government document to learn more about this historic home.
View this document to see pictures of the home and to gain more information about the auction. Oct 18 Absolute Auctions.
For more information, contact Julianne Ramsey at 573-239-0183 .
