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June 9, 10, 11, 2013 festival features historic music of J.W. “Blind” Boone era

On June 9, 10, and 11, 2013, you’ll be able to hear history with the music from the era of J.W. “Blind” Boone, who lived at the historic home at 10 N. Fourth St., which is currently being considered for interior renovations.

The “Blind” Boone Early Jazz and Ragtime Festival tickets are on sale now and tickets can be purchased here. Performances are in the historic and recently renovated Missouri Theatre on Ninth Street in Columbia, Missouri. In addition to separate concert prices, there is a basic two-day pass for $100 and a three-day pass for $150, for four events and six events, respectively.

The concerts are a short walk from Boone’s historic home at 10 N. Fourth Street, which has had its exterior renovated, but awaits further improvements.

The concerts are sponsored by the J.W. “Blind” Boone Foundation. For more information, see http://www.concertseries.org/event/blind-boone-early-jazz-ragtime-festival/

This year, the event includes The Launch as well as a Ragtime Bash, with proceeds from these two events slated to fund future “Blind” Boone Early Jazz and Ragtime Festivals.

Why is this concert series important? J.W. “Blind” Boone, the child of a run-away slave and U.S. Union bugler, lived from 1864-1927 and played and composed ragtime music, as well as classical music. Many say he was the first person to bring popular, ragtime tunes to the concert stage, and his motto, despite being blind and African-American during a trying time, was “Merit, not sympathy, wins.”

Here’s the schedule for the 2013 Blind Boone Ragtime & Early Jazz Festival.

Sunday, June 9, 2013

4 p.m. — The Launch, Silent Film – $5 (or free with a Ragtime Bash ticket). Silent Film with Dennis James at the Organ and Frederick Hodges at the Piano

6 p.m. The Ragtime Bash! – $50 (includes a ticket for The Launch, Silent Film)

Monday, June 10, 2013

4 p.m. — The Young Turks Concert- $23

7:30 p.m. — A Tribute to Johnny Maddox – $33

Tuesday, June 11, 2013

5:30 p.m. – Piano and Organ Extravaganza – $23

7:30 p.m. – Sweet and Hot Duets – $33

 

For more information, see concertseries.org, or call 573-882-3781.

 

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2013 Most Notable Properties Highlights

In case you missed it, here are links to coverage of the February 2013 announcement of six historic sites named to the Columbia Most Notable Properties List by the Columbia Historic Preservation Commission.

Qualifications for being named to the list include the property being older than 50 years, within Columbia’s city limits and highlights the historical or architectural influences in Columbia. To learn more about the Most Notable Properties criteria, check out this publication by the city.

The 2013 properties are as follows:

920 Cherry St. — Niedermeyer Apartments, circa 1837, with additions in 1902.

110 S. Ninth St. — Booche’s, circa 1925.

511 E. Rollins St., Pi Beta Phi Missouri Alpha Chapter House, 1930.

1411 Anthony St. – Arthur and Susie Buchroeder House, circa 1906. Dutch Colonial revival-style

703 Ingleside Drive, W.J. and Clara Lhamon House, 1926.

916 W. Stewart Road — Claude and Stella Woolsey House, circa 1930.

To read more about the properties, here are links to media coverage of the properties.

Feb. 5, 2013 – Columbia’s 2013 Most Notable Properties. Six properties, including a business rather than a property per se, were named to the Columbia Most Notable Properties list. Columbia Missourian article.

Feb. 5, 2013 – Commission to honor city’s notable properties: Six buildings to be recognized. Columbia Daily Tribune article.

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Changes to demolition permits pondered

With 2012 seeing the loss of the Annie Fisher house (circa 1920s) and several other older dwellings, the Columbia Planning and zoning Commission is considering changing the time period for demolition requests and the nomination process to historic preservation districts.

Read the Sept. 22, 2012 Columbia Tribune article, “Panel working on a new demolition, historic preservation rules.”

http://m.columbiatribune.com/news/2012/sep/22/panel-working-on-new-demolition-historic/

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Dec. 4 concert for historic home of John W. “Blind” Boone

When I mentioned to a friend I wanted to write a book about historic homes, she suggested a title for it: If these walls could talk.

Well, on Dec. 4, 2011, in a way, the walls of one historic home will talk, and it will be the language of music.

A fund-raising concert will be held at 6 p.m. in the Second Baptist Church on Fourth and Broadway, sponsored by the Boone Home Foundation, according to this article by Bill Clark in the Columbia Daily Tribune.

The fundraiser is to raise money to help continue the renovation of the home of John William “Blind” Boone, a virtuoso pianist who lived in Columbia from 1879 until his death in 1927.

So what kind of music can you expect? Describing it in the article Clark quotes pianist John Davis calling it,”virtuoso salon pieces that fuse the European concert music with rural American and black folk traditions.”

For more information on Boone or to contribute to help fund the renovation of his historic home, visit the J.W. “Blind” Boone Heritage Foundation Board website.

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Roots N Blues, ragtime and historic homes

It is no wonder Columbia is once again hosting the Roots N Blues N BBQ festival. This city has a long history with music.

Until 1927, J.W. “Blind” Boone lived at 10 N. Fourth Street. At the time, Boone was one of the world’s most famous musicians, according to the website of the J.W. “Blind” Boone Heritage Foundation. “Along with Scott Joplin and James Scott, Boone made up Missouri’s Big Three, the most influential musicians in the state known as the home of ragtime, the precursor of jazz,” the site states.

Hear Boone’s music by going to this link. Today, the home is being preserved with plans under way for a garden and interior work. To help fund the project, go here.

Along with the music of this weekend, Columbia is filled with historic homes. Here’s an interactive map you can follow to see all of Columbia’s historic homes from the J.W. “Blind” Boone home on Fourth Street to the historic home sometimes called Confederate Hill or the Guitar Mansion at 2815 Oakland Gravel Road, once slated to become a bed and breakfast, but now once again a private home.

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?client=firefox-a&hl=en&ie=UTF8&oe=UTF8&num=200&start=122&msa=0&msid=208147865224315146382.0004a1d2b04445d800e6b&ll=38.955137,-92.331333&spn=0.109863,0.188828&t=h&z=13&iwloc=0004a1d36c15bdfc42b51

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Historic Gala Postponed to Feb. 16, 2011

A new date, Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2011 has been set for the Most Notable Properties gala, an annual event by the City of Columbia’s Historic Preservation Commission.

The gala will be held the Daniel Boone Regional Library Friends Room.

This Columbia, Missouri, event is when the Historic Preservation Commission announces and gives a presentation on this year’s Most Notable Properties. In the past, notable properties have included commercial buildings, churches, cemeteries and homes in Columbia.

The event had been planned for tonight, Feb. 1, but a blizzard has led to it being postponed.

You can review previous years’ events via these links.

http://www.columbiamissourian.com/stories/2010/02/02/seven-properties-town-named-most-notable-year/

http://www.gocolumbiamo.com/TCC/Video/Archive/video.php?video=145

http://www.gocolumbiamo.com/TCC/Video/Archive/video.php?video=87

 

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Demolition of four 90-plus-year-old homes planned

Should historic homes be demolished to accommodate the growth of Columbia?

As Columbia grows, it will face more and more such questions, just as it has in the past. The Missouri Theatre, built in 1928, displaced the home that was once there. Now, there are four homes built from 1900-1915 that will probably be demolished to accommodate the building of new apartment buildings. Jon and Nathan Odle have requested a rezoning permit for the area.

An article published on Dec. 16, 2010 in the Columbia Missourian states the construction would “displace four homes, a grassy field and an existing parking lot.” Displaced means torn down, destroyed, razed. As a member of a city commission wondered aloud at a recent meeting, will the new apartments be built to stand the test of time, as have these Victorian homes?

The homes are at 113 College, built 1900, 1211 E. Walnut, built 1915 and 1215 E. Walnut Street, built 1900. Some comments on the Columbia Missourian site showed residents would welcome one of the houses being destroyed, calling the pink house ugly.

But is that what we want? Victorian homes, even ugly ones, demolished?

Some old Victorians can become what are called “Painted ladies,” renovated and spruced up. They can even become tourist draws, such as those in San Francisco.

On the other hand, an old house sometimes is just an old house.

http://www.columbiamissourian.com/stories/2010/12/16/rezoning-commercial-and-residential-property/

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See inside the Keene School … House

You don’t have to leave home to take a peek inside this former schoolhouse built in the 1800s, which is now a home.

It’s up for sale you can take virtual tour by clicking here.

The text that accompanies it says the bricks in the home were made by hand.

While the conversion from school to house might seem unusual, from one point of view, the schoolhouse was always a home. It was built with living quarters for the school teacher on the second floor. The home was named to the Columbia Notable Properties List in 2004.

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Opportunity or Trajedy? Guitar Mansion/Confederate Hill

Guitar Mansion, dubbed Confederate Hill in the 1940s, at 2815 Oakland Gravel Road is going up for Absolute Real Estate Auction on October 18, 2010. A viewing day is slated for Sept. 18, 2010.

An absolute auction means whatever the price is when the gavel goes down, that what the house will be sold for. Some auctions have a floor bid, but not this one.

The house has been vacant for some time, but 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.

Built in roughly 1862, it’s on the National Register of Historic Places.

The agent listing the house says she’s had inquires from all over the nation. Let’s hope so. Let’s hope it doesn’t go the way of many of the fine mansions that once lined our streets.

Wouldn’t it be nice if we could have some of the characteristics of St. Genevieve, a destination for its historic sites? Or St. Charles? Or even Independence, a thriving city which also has a historic flavor to it far beyond its ties to Truman.

Interested in learning more about this landmark home? This auction flier outlines the characteristics of the home.

Oct 18 Absolute Auctions