Poplar Bluff is a small city in Butler County in Southeast Missouri, United States. It is the county seat of Butler County and is known as "The Gateway to the Ozarks" among other names. The population was 17,023 at the 2010 census.
Poplar Bluff is a historic train station in Poplar Bluff, Missouri, United States, served by Amtrak, the national railroad passenger system.
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Thomas Moore House is a historic home located at Poplar Bluff, Butler County, Missouri. It was built in 1896, and is a 2 1/2-story, irregular plan, Queen Anne style frame dwelling with Colonial Revival influenced detailing. It has a hipped and gable roof and features a projecting polygonal, two-story bay.
Rankin-Harwell House, also known as The Columns, Carolina Hall, and the James Harwell House, is a historic plantation house located near Florence, Florence County, South Carolina. It was built in 1857, and is a two-story, frame, Greek Revival style dwelling. It features 22 giant freestanding Doric order stuccoed brick columns that surround the house on three sides. It rests on a raised basement and has a low-pitched hipped roof.
John Archibald Phillips House is a historic home located at Poplar Bluff, Butler County, Missouri. It was built in 1891, and is a 2 1/2-story, irregular plan, Queen Anne style frame dwelling. It has a gable roof with fishscale shingles on the gable end and features a one-story, shed roof entry porch with milled and chamfered columns. Surrounding the house is an original cast iron fence. The house was acquired by the Butler County Historical Society in 1985 to serve as a house museum and meeting space.
J. Herbert Moore House is a historic home located at Poplar Bluff, Butler County, Missouri. It was built in 1938, and is a two-story, irregular plan, International Style dwelling of wood and concrete construction with a stuccoed exterior. It has an attached garage and carport. It features original multi-light steel casement windows and original structural glass blocks.
Alfred W. Greer House is a historic home located at Poplar Bluff, Butler County, Missouri. It was built in 1915, and is a 2 1/2-story, rectangular plan, American Craftsman style brick dwelling with a 2 1/2-story side wing. It has a gable roof with wide eaves and exposed rafters and features large brick porch piers on the main facade.
Mark Twain School, also known as the Poplar Bluff Museum, is a historic school building located at Poplar Bluff, Butler County, Missouri. It was built in 1910, and is a two-story, "H"-plan, Classical Revival style brick building. The building consists of two, parallel, rectangular-plan, hipped roof blocks joined by an enclosed two-story flat roof corridor. It remained in use as an elementary school until 1988.
Williamson-Kennedy School is a historic school building located at Poplar Bluff, Butler County, Missouri. It was built in 1922, and is a three-story, rectangular plan, Colonial Revival style brick building. It sits on a cast concrete foundation and has a flat roof. The two primary entrances located in one-story projecting wings at the corners of the building and features cast concrete Doric orderpilasters.
St. Louis-San Francisco Railroad Depot is a historic train station located at Poplar Bluff, Butler County, Missouri. The station was built in 1928 by the St. Louis–San Francisco Railway. It is a one-story, Mission Revival style brick building sheathed in textured stucco. It sits on a concrete foundation, has a gable and hipped Spanish tile roof, and features two interior brick and stucco chimneys. The building is presently occupied as a railroad museum.
Wright-Dalton-Bell-Anchor Department Store Building, also known as the Dalton Store and F.W. Woolworth Store, is a historic commercial building located at Poplar Bluff, Butler County, Missouri. It was built in 1927-1928, and is a two-to three-story, rectangular brick building with terra cotta embellishments. It features shaped parapets with terra cotta coping and quatrefoil insets and a decorative terra cotta signboard and storefront surround. An F.W. Woolworth occupied the building from 1947 to about 1987.
Butler County Courthouse is a historic courthouse located at Poplar Bluff, Butler County, Missouri. It was built in 1928, and is a three-story, Classical Revival style brick building of cast concrete construction. Each side is nine bays wide, with the central five bays having two-story engaged Doric order columns and pilasters on the top two floors.
Poplar Bluff Public Library is a historic library building located at Poplar Bluff, Butler County, Missouri. It was built in 1936, and is a one-story, Colonial Revival style brick building. It sits on a full basement and has a gable roof.
Rodgers Theatre Building is a historic commercial building located at Poplar Bluff, Butler County, Missouri. It was built in 1949, and is a three-story, brick and concrete commercial building with Art Deco and Art Moderne stylistic elements. The building contains a drama stage and one commercial space and consists of three main sections; the facade and theatre marquee, the theatre, and the office block. The theatre marquee features a prominent ziggurat tower. The Stage Company is currently using the historic Rodgers Theatre for several stage productions per year.
Poplar Bluff Commercial Historic District is a national historic district located at Poplar Bluff, Butler County, Missouri. It encompasses 14 contributing commercial buildings in the central business district of Poplar Bluff. The district developed between about 1880 and 1930s, and includes representative examples of Italianate and Colonial Revival style architecture. Notable buildings include the Fraternal Building (1928) and Begley Building (1908).
South Sixth Street Historic District is a national historic district located at Poplar Bluff, Butler County, Missouri. It encompasses four contributing buildings and two contributing structures in a residential section of Poplar Bluff. The district developed between about 1880 and 1917, and includes representative examples of Italianate and Colonial Revival style architecture. Notable buildings include the Luke F. Quinn House (1884), the Warren S. Randall House (1889), and John C. Corrigan House (1917).
North Main Street Historic District is a national historic district located at Poplar Bluff, Butler County, Missouri. It encompasses 19 contributing buildings and 1 contributing structure in a predominantly residential section of Poplar Bluff. The district developed between about 1880 and 1954, and includes representative examples of Queen Anne, Neo-Classical Revival, Colonial Revival, Late Gothic Revival, and Bungalow / American Craftsman style architecture. Located in the district is the separately listed Moore-Dalton House. Other notable buildings include the Holy Cross Episcopal Church and Zion Lutheran Church.
Cynthia–Kinzer Historic District is a national historic district located around Cynthia and Kinzer Streets, Poplar Bluff, Missouri. It encompasses 55 contributing buildings 1 contributing site, and 17 contributing structures in a predominantly residential section of Poplar Bluff. The district developed between about 1907 and 1961, and includes representative examples of Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival, Bungalow / American Craftsman, and International style architecture. Located in the district are the separately listed Alfred W. Greer House and J. Herbert Moore House. Other notable buildings include the Fred Anderson House, Hubert C. Roland House, Lyle Kutchback House, Lawrence and Alma Tedrick House, C.P. Schultz House, J. Truman and Lena Carter House, Carl Capps House, and James and Nelda McPheeters House.
Williams-Gierth House, also known as The Castle House is a historic home located at Poplar Bluff, Butler County, Missouri. It was built in 1892, and is a large 2 1/2-story, irregular plan, Shingle Style dwelling. It features a reconstructed wraparound porch, two turrets, and a hipped roof with polygonal dormer.
