Dockery Hotel

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Dockery Hotel
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LocationElson & McPherson Sts., Kirksville, Missouri
Coordinates 40°11′38″N92°35′4″W / 40.19389°N 92.58444°W / 40.19389; -92.58444
Arealess than one acre
Built1891 (1891)
NRHP reference No. 83000971 [1]
Added to NRHPFebruary 10, 1983

Dockery Hotel was a historic hotel located at Kirksville, Adair County, Missouri. It was built in 1891, and was a two-story, U-shaped brick building. It featured an ornate pressed metal second story front facade with unusual corner columns with enlarged capitals and piers. [2] It was destroyed in 1991.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. Linda Donavan Harper (October 1982). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Dockery Hotel" (PDF). Missouri Department of Natural Resources. Retrieved 2016-09-01.