Napoleon Buck House

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Napoleon Buck House
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Location 0.40 mi. S of jct. of US 24 and MO 273, near Waverly, Missouri
Coordinates 39°11′49″N93°32′9″W / 39.19694°N 93.53583°W / 39.19694; -93.53583 Coordinates: 39°11′49″N93°32′9″W / 39.19694°N 93.53583°W / 39.19694; -93.53583
Area less than one acre
Built 1873 (1873)
Architectural style Greek Revival
MPS Antebellum Resources of Johnson, Lafayette, Pettis, and Saline Counties MPS
NRHP reference # 97001431 [1]
Added to NRHP November 14, 1997

Napoleon Buck House was a historic home located near Waverly, Lafayette County, Missouri. It was built about 1873, and was a two-story, central passage plan, vernacular Greek Revival style brick I-house. It had a two-story rear ell supporting a double-gallery porch. It featured segmental arched openings. [2] :5 The house is no longer in existence.

Waverly, Missouri City in Missouri, United States

Waverly is a city in Lafayette County, Missouri, United States. The population was 849 at the 2010 census.

Lafayette County, Missouri County in the United States

Lafayette County is a county located in the western portion of the U.S. state of Missouri. As of the 2010 census, the population was 33,381. Its county seat is Lexington. The county was organized November 16, 1820 from Cooper County and originally named Lillard County for James Lillard of Tennessee, who served in the first state constitutional convention and first state legislature. It was renamed Lafayette County on February 16, 1825, in honor of Revolutionary War hero the Marquis de La Fayette, who was then visiting the United States.

Central-passage house

The central-passage house, also known variously as center-hall house, hall-passage-parlor house, Williamsburg cottage, and Tidewater-type cottage, was a vernacular, or folk form, house type from the colonial period onward into the 19th century in the United States.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997. [1]

National Register of Historic Places federal list of historic sites in the United States

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References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service.
  2. Roger Maserang (March 1996). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Napoleon Buck House" (PDF). Missouri Department of Natural Resources. Retrieved 2017-01-01. (includes 12 photographs from 1995)