If you own a historic home — or just an old house like I do — and you are all thumbs like I am, here’s your chance to get help for you and your house. The City of Columbia just received a grant to put on workshops that will help homeowners learn the ins and…
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Do you think Columbia is an architectural wasteland?
William Bernoudy – student of Frank Lloyd Wright. Eero Saarinen – architect of the St. Louis Gateway Arch. Boller Brothers and an Paris opera. These are just a few of the names and reasons cited to dispel the idea that Columbia, Missouri is an architectural wasteland. In case you missed this article by Morgan McCarty in…
Seven reasons to skip this event marking historic places in Columbia, Missouri
You may want to skip this free event set for 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 1, 2014 at Columbia’s historic Daniel Boone Lobby at 701 E. Broadway. Below I list seven reasons not to attend this reception and presentation marking the honoring of five Columbia properties as Notable Properties by the Columbia Historic Preservation Commission. Since…
Find your connections to historic Columbia
Turns out, my best friend is connected to the historic 1910 Heibel-March Building. And she not from here, she’s German and didn’t even move to Columbia from Chicago until the 1970s. Not bad for a building that had been vacant for 16 years and has only recently been revitalized as the office space for Grove…
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