Delmo Community Center

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Delmo Community Center
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Location 1 Delmo St., Homestown, Missouri
Coordinates 36°19′54″N89°49′30″W / 36.33167°N 89.82500°W / 36.33167; -89.82500 Coordinates: 36°19′54″N89°49′30″W / 36.33167°N 89.82500°W / 36.33167; -89.82500
Area 2.8 acres (1.1 ha)
Built 1940 (1940)
Architect District 111-Farm Security Admin.
Architectural style Side gable utility building
NRHP reference # 08001323 [1]
Added to NRHP January 15, 2009

Delmo Community Center, also known as South Wardell Utility Building, is a historic community centre located at Homestown, Pemiscot County, Missouri. It was designed and constructed by the Farm Security Administration in 1940 as a utility building for the entire community. It is a long one-story, rectangular, frame building on a concrete foundation. It measures approximately 56 feet by 26 feet and is sheathed in clapboard siding. [2] :5

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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. Tiffany Patterson (June 2008). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Delmo Community Center" (PDF). Missouri Department of Natural Resources. Retrieved 2017-01-01. (includes 5 photographs from 2008)