Miller-Porter-Lacy House

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Miller-Porter-Lacy House

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Miller-Porter-Lacy House, July 2013
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Location 2912 Frederick Blvd., St. Joseph, Missouri
Coordinates 39°46′34″N94°49′14″W / 39.77611°N 94.82056°W / 39.77611; -94.82056 Coordinates: 39°46′34″N94°49′14″W / 39.77611°N 94.82056°W / 39.77611; -94.82056
Area 5 acres (2.0 ha)
Built 1883 (1883), 1902
Architect Eckel, Edmund Jacques
Architectural style Colonial Revival, Italianate, Georgian Revival
NRHP reference # 82003127 [1]
Added to NRHP September 9, 1982

Miller-Porter-Lacy House, also known as the Lacy House, is a historic home located at St. Joseph, Missouri. The original section was built in 1883, as an Italianate style brick farmhouse. It was enlarged and remodeled in 1902 by the architect Edmond Jacques Eckel (1845–1934) in the Colonial Revival / Georgian Revival style. It is a large brick dwelling with a low hipped roof. It features Tuscan order columned porches and a porte cochere. Also on the property is a contributing carriage house and croquet and tennis court sites. [2] :3–4

St. Joseph, Missouri Place in Missouri, United States

St. Joseph is a city in and the county seat of Buchanan County, Missouri, United States. Small parts of St. Joseph extend into Andrew County, Missouri, United States. It is the principal city of the St. Joseph Metropolitan Statistical Area, which includes Buchanan, Andrew, and DeKalb counties in Missouri and Doniphan County, Kansas. As of the 2010 census, St. Joseph had a total population of 76,780, making it the eighth largest city in the state, and the third largest in Northwest Missouri. St. Joseph is located roughly thirty miles north of the Kansas City, Missouri city limits.

Italianate architecture 19th-century phase in the history of Classical architecture

The Italianate style of architecture was a distinct 19th-century phase in the history of Classical architecture.

Farmhouse main house of a farm

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It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. [1]

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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. Nancy Sandehn (August 1981). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Miller-Porter-Lacy House" (PDF). Missouri Department of Natural Resources. Retrieved 2016-09-01.