Columbia’s celebration of 2014’s additions to the Notable Properties is scheduled for 7 p.m. on April 1 in City Hall at 701 E. Broadway. The event was postponed from Feb. 4 due to a snow storm. This year’s event will feature 15 years of images of the historic properties and introductions by Columbia’s Historic Preservation…
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Event postponed for Columbia’s Most Notable Properties
The celebration of Columbia’s Most Notable Properties has been postponed. It had been scheduled for Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014, but on Monday, the City of Columbia sent out a notice that all nonessential city services will be postponed due to expected snow and/or cold. The names of the properties named to the list have already…
Celebrate history Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014
History from the New Deal to family cemeteries will be celebrated at 6:30 p.m. reception honoring the 2014 Most Notable Properties named by the City of Columbia’s Historic Preservation Commission. The event is free and open to the public. To RSVP, click here. The event is held in the historic Daniel Boone Lobby at 701…
Columbia Historic Homes site gets nearly 7,000 visitors in 2013
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 6,900 times in 2013. If it were a NYC subway train, it would take about 6 trips to carry that many people. Click here to…
Hansel and Gretel house changes hands
The historic home at 121 N. West Blvd., has changed hands once again. Often called the Gingerbread house or the Hansel and Gretel house for its fairy tale like appearance, the house has been purchased by Sean and Leigh Spence, according to this Dec. 7, 2013 article in the Columbia Daily Tribune by Jacob Barker….
Could the student-housing boom help this motor inn?
This Columbia Missourian article outlines beautifully the history of the Arrow Head Motel, what Deb Sheals says in the story is one of the last remaining old tourist camps. The present owner, Mohammad Eldeib, no longer rent rooms there, instead using the location to rent trucks and trailers. But in the article, he notes he’d…
A new use for historic buildings
Historic buildings need to be put to work to save them, and sometimes that means finding a new use for the building. For example, historic homes with too much space for today’s smaller families are sometimes reused as bed and breakfasts — or an old historic building could be renovated to become housing for artists….
Will the historic Hall Theatre end up vacant for 10 years?
The restaurant Panera Bread has occupied the majority of the historic Hall Theatre since 2005, and will be closing that location at the end of this year. This could be bad news for Ninth Street and the Hall Theatre. The building, the article notes, is owned by Stan Kroenke of The Kroenke Group. This is the…
Women’s hidden history on Columbia’s Hitt St.
Women architects aren’t news today, but in the 1920s, they were. Yet, few people realize one of the state’s first women architects designed two well-known apartment buildings here in Columbia, the Belvedere at 206 Hitt St., and the Beverly at 211 Hitt St. Nelle E. Peters was the architect of the both of these 1927…
Great opportunity to own a historic home and schoolhouse
Here are two great ways to get a peek inside a historic home and a historic school-house. At 10 a.m. Saturday, August 17 2013, this former one-room school at 4713 Brown Station Road, Columbia, will go up for auction. Named the Keene School, the United Country’s website outlines its history as a former school-house and includes…
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