The Annie Fisher Home at 2911 Old Highway 63 South has a new champion — Sheila Kitchen Ruffin. Ruffin is developing The Annie Fisher Project to save the home. She can be contacted at theanniefisherhouseproject@gmail.com. When the house was built, it was outside of Columbia. Today, it is between commercial buildings and apartments. To see a…
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History blogger. Writer. Traveler. Curiosity drives me. I share what I learn at CoMoHistoricPlaces.com. My newest book, Historic Movie Theaters of Columbia, came out in October 2021. My 2017 book, From Melon Fields to Moon Rocks highlighted the life of Columbia resident Charles W. Gehrke, 1917-2009, a scientist and entrepreneur who founded ABC Labs, now Eurofins.
Virtual tour of 1927 home at 2007 S. Country Club Drive
Another historic home is on the market. This one, built in 1927, is at 2007 S. Country Club Drive. It was named to the Columbia Most Notable Properties List in 2008. This Tudor home features a staircase from Italy as well as practical features including six bedrooms, six bathrooms and two half baths. The home is roughly…
Oct. 11, 2010 event to highlight J.W. “Blind” Boone Home
A scale model of a proposed statue of J.W. “Blind” Boone, an early jazz and ragtime musician, will be unveiled at 6:30 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 11 at the Reynolds Alumni Center at the University of Missouri. Tickets to the reception are available by contacting Terra Crane at TKCrane@gocolumbiamo.com. But you can see a historic view…
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…
Get a Peek at History, Saturday, Sept. 18, 2010
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…
Columbia’s history – a new book by Warren Dalton, “Between the Columns”
Sometimes you can see into the past — especially through books. Warren Dalton is putting out a new book called “Between the Columns.” The deadline for ordering it is Sept. 30, 2011. It can be ordered through the Columbia Daily Tribune’s website here. His previous book, “Historic Downtown Columbia,” featured information on the downtown area. This book, according…
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…
Nominate A Building
It is your turn to decide what building, home or area should be on the Most Notable Properties list of the Columbia Historic Preservation Commission. Nominations are being taken for selection for the list. Here’s a link to more information and the nomination form. Nominations are due by Oct. 1, 2010. The gala event announcing the winners will…
Street Renaming Controversy Not New
Recently, there’s been a move afoot to rename Maryland Avenue at the University of Missouri to Tiger Avenue. Reports indicate some controversy about the proposal. Research on the historic significance of Maryland Avenue even reached back to an October 23, 1912 article in the University Missourian newspaper, with the help of the Western Historic Manuscript…
Brick Streets – History under our feet
Sometimes history is truly right under our feet. That’s the case with Columbia’s brick streets, named to the Columbia Historic Preservation Commission’s list of Most Notable Historic Properties in 2010. From 1909 to 1915, many of Columbia’s streets were paved using bricks. Today, many of these streets have been covered by asphalt or concrete, but a few brick…
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