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…
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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…
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…
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…
Historic Walks and Government Documents
True confession: I love government documents, especially the National Register of Historic Places government documents. You can learn to love them too, because each National Register of Historic Places document contains a trove of information, including maps and photographs. The documents can even be used for fun — really! A while back a friend of…
Missouri Theatre – Tough Luck, Mary Todd Lincoln’s cousin
In 2008, the Missouri Theatre, now called the Missouri Theatre Center for the Arts, under went a $10 million renovation, again becoming the jewel of downtown Columbia. But with every gain, sometimes comes a loss — as in the case of the 1928 construction of the Missouri Theatre. Named in 1979 to the National Register of…
Black History – Annie Fisher, 2911 Old Highway 63 South
Nearly hidden between apartment buildings is a piece of Black history — the home of Annie Fisher, an early African-American entrepreneur. Located at 2911 Old Highway 63 South, this home is threatened with demolition, but that would erase a piece of history few know about. The house was named to the Columbia Notable Properties list in…
Spanish Influence – Vessell Home – 2 East Stewart Road
It can be easy to forget history, but historic homes serve as wonderful reminders. That’s the theme of the article, “Historic Home: A Slice of Spain,” published in the April/May 2006 Columbia Home & Lifestyle magazine written by Jim Muench. The home at 2 E. Stewart Road looks like something that could be found in Spain…
Greenwood Heights – built by slaves
Historic homes can be our touchstones to history, some of which we like to recall and some we’d like to forget. Greenwood Manor or Greenwood Heights at 3005 Mexico Gravel Road was built by slaves owned by Walter Raleigh Lenoir of Lenoir, North Carolina. That city was named for Lenoir’s father, who fought in the…
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