Henry Charles Eitzen Building

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Henry Charles Eitzen Building

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Eitzen Building, March 2014
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Location 200 Jefferson St., Washington, Missouri
Coordinates 38°33′29″N91°0′38″W / 38.55806°N 91.01056°W / 38.55806; -91.01056 Coordinates: 38°33′29″N91°0′38″W / 38.55806°N 91.01056°W / 38.55806; -91.01056
Area less than one acre
Built c. 1854 (1854)
Built by Brix, Otto
Architectural style Klassisismus
MPS Washington, Missouri MPS
NRHP reference # 00001096 [1]
Added to NRHP September 14, 2000

Henry Charles Eitzen Building, also known as the Oscar H. Guether Store Building and Hy. Poppenheusen Tin Shop, is a historic commercial building located at Washington, Franklin County, Missouri. The original section was built about 1854, and is a 2 1/2-story, German Neoclassical style brick building in the Klassisismus form. It has a three-bay, one-story brick ell added before 1893. [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. Debbie Sheals & Becky L. Snider (February 2000). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Henry Charles Eitzen Building" (PDF). Missouri Department of Natural Resources. Retrieved 2016-12-01. (includes 8 photographs from 1999)