It’s time for nominations for the city’s Most Notable Properties list and this article in the July 5, 2022 Columbia Missourian. The article highlights 10 properties already on the list. So what is the Most Notable Property list? Any property 50 years or older, with in the city’s corporate limits with architectural or historic features…
Category: Historic Preservation Commission
Update on new preservation group
A new group devoted to preserving Columbia’s history held its second meeting on June 18, 2022 in the Columbia Public Library. The next meeting will be at 7 p.m. Tuesday, July 26, 2022 in the Boone County History & Culture Center. Here are the minutes of the meeting. https://docs.google.com/document/d/13WBfe2EslblU2rAwYMMYy9orVu9e9J5ksPIDakQY9dQ/edit?usp=sharing The June 18, 2022 meeting was…
Events: Two ways to save history
— The Columbia’s governmental Historic Preservation Commission meeting has rescheduled its usual first Tuesday of the month meeting to 7 p.m. on Wednesday, June 15, 2022. It will be in Conference Room 1B. This organization is part of city government and reviews — but cannot stop — demolitions and manages the city’s Notable Properties program…
Events: Park meeting, preservation, DNA, birthday party and cemetery gets lively
Get out the slow cooker and shuffle your take-out menus, you’re going to be busy this month! 7 p.m. Monday, May 6, 2019 — Columbia City Council is meeting and the expansion of Flat Branch Park is up for discussion. The meeting will be held in Council Chambers at 701 E. Broadway. How’s history connected…
Events: African American newspapers, National Register changes, State preservation conference
Mark your calendar: 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 30 — The African American Press in Missouri, a lecture about African American newspapers in Missouri. The presentation will be given by Debra Foster Greene, Lincoln University professor emerita of history. From 1875 to 1970, Missouri had more than 60 black-owned newspapers. The event is free and will…
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