The Missouri Botanical Garden is a botanical garden located at 4344 Shaw Boulevard in St. Louis, Missouri. It is also known informally as Shaw's Garden for founder and philanthropist Henry Shaw. Its herbarium, with more than 6.6 million specimens, is the second largest in North America, behind only that of the New York Botanical Garden.
Tower Grove Park is a municipal park in the city of St. Louis, Missouri. Most of its land was donated to the city by Henry Shaw in 1868. It is on 289 acres (1.17 km²) adjacent to the Missouri Botanical Garden, another of Shaw's legacies. It extends 1.6 miles from west to east, between Kingshighway Boulevard and Grand Boulevard. It is bordered on the north by Magnolia Avenue and on the south by Arsenal Street.
This is a list of properties and historic districts in Missouri on the National Register of Historic Places. There are NRHP listings in all of Missouri's 114 counties and the one independent city of St. Louis.
Wooldridge Park, also known as Wooldridge Square, is an urban park in downtown Austin, Texas. The park consists of a city block containing a natural basin whose sides slope inward to form an amphitheater with a bandstand at its center. The park was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.
The Phil Hoffman House is a house at 807 High Avenue East in Oskaloosa, Iowa. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.
The First Christian Church is a historic Disciples of Christ church located at 101 North Tenth Street in Columbia, Missouri. It was designed by T.N. Bell of Chicago, Illinois and built in 1893. It has a Richardsonian Romanesque style Sanctuary that includes a square bell tower, horizontal massing with contrasting high gables, round arches, heavy and highly textured stone work, and voussoir arches. The Education Building was designed by Eugene Groves and added in 1929. This is the second church building to stand at this site. The building is still a functioning church today.
Van Meter State Park is a public recreation area on the Missouri River in Saline County, Missouri. The state park consists of 1,105 acres (447 ha) of hills, ravines, fresh water marsh, fens, and bottomland and upland forests in an area known as "the Pinnacles." The park has several archaeological sites, a cultural center, and facilities for camping, hiking, and fishing. It is managed by the Missouri Department of Natural Resources.
Pulteney Square Historic District is a national historic district located at Hammondsport in Steuben County, New York. The district includes 15 contributing buildings, one contributing structure (bandstand), one contributing site, and three contributing secondary buildings. The structures are clustered around Pulteney Square, a village green roughly 140 feet square, and date from the 1820s to 1920s.
The Oskaloosa City Park and Band Stand is a nationally recognized historic district located in Oskaloosa, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. The listing includes one contributing site and five contributing objects. The town square, which is the site, was part of the original town plat in 1844. Landscaping projects were undertaken in the 1860s, 1911 and 1970–1971. In addition to the landscaping the sidewalks and curbing were installed in 1911. The bandstand in the center was designed by Des Moines architect Frank E. Wetherell, an Oskaloosa native, and built in 1912. The 29-foot (8.8 m) high octagonal structure is composed of concrete, iron and steel. In addition to the bandstand the other historic objects include the Spanish–American War torpedo ; Chief Mahaska sculpture by Fry (1909); Gold Star Mothers' rose bed ; and the Women's Relief Corps memorial (1920). It was included in the Oskaloosa City Square Commercial Historic District, which surrounds it, in 1986.
The Gainesville Park and Bandstand is a historic park and bandstand in Gainesville, Sumter County, Alabama. The bandstand is a Greek Revival-style pavilion, built circa 1850. It is a rare Alabama example of an enduring mid-19th century park structure. The entire park is surrounded by 19th century wrought iron fence. The park and bandstand were listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 29, 1985.
The Central Park Bandstand, also known as the Music Pavilion, is a historic bandshell located within Central Park in Orion, Illinois. The bandstand was built in 1913 following a series of successful outdoor concerts in the park. Local engineer J. C. Ericson built the structure in the then-recently popularized bandshell form, which projected sound toward the audience through its rear wall. The bandstand was completed in three weeks; its opening concert hosted the largest crowd that the park had ever held until that time. From its inception until 1925, the bandstand continued to host concerts, usually once per week; movie screenings and church services were also held at the bandstand. Beginning in 1947, the bandstand became an event stage for the Midwest Corn Show, which later became the Orion Fall Festival; the structure is now mainly used during the festival.
Claud D. Grove and Berenice Sinclair Grove House, also known as the Hagener House and Edward G. Sinclair House , is a historic home located at Jefferson City, Cole County, Missouri. It was built about 1912, and is a two-story, Colonial Revival style brick dwelling with a projecting center gable. It has a slate hipped roof with shed dormer. It features a one-story front porch supported by one square and two round Tuscan order columns.
Clinton Square Historic District is a national historic district located at Clinton, Henry County, Missouri. The district encompasses 62 contributing buildings, 1 contributing structure, and 1 contributing object in the central business district of Clinton. It developed between about 1885 and 1957 and includes representative examples of Italianate and Romanesque Revival style architecture. Located in the district is the separately listed Anheuser-Busch Brewing Association Building. Other notable buildings include the Fristoes Body Shop Office, Whitehead Consultants, Texas Room / Pit Stop Pub, State Farm Insurance, Montgomery Ward (1940s), J.C. Penney / Brownsbergers / Eberting's Main Street Central, Old City Hall (1891), Delozier Building (1887), Crest Cinema, Henry County Courthouse, and the Bandstand on Courthouse Square.
Augusta Harmonie Verein, also known as the American Legion Post 262 and Grand Army of the Republic Hall, is a historic clubhouse located at Augusta, St. Charles County, Missouri. It was built in 1869, and is a 1 1/2-story, frame building with board and batten siding. It measures approximately 35 feet wide by 95 feet deep and has a weatherboarded addition built about 1970. Also on the property is a contributing octagonal bandstand constructed about 1890.
Henry H. Hohenschild, also known as H.H. Hohenschild, was an architect based in Rolla, Missouri, USA. He born at St. Louis, and educated in the city's public schools. He moved to Rolla in 1881, where he established an architectural practice designing public and residential buildings. He was elected to the Missouri Senate in 1896. In 1899 was appointed State Architect by Governor Lon V. Stephens which involved the architect in designing several state buildings including some at the state penitentiary. In addition to 10 county courthouses, he designed several buildings for the School of Mines, the State Mental Institution in Farmington (1901), the Tuberculosis Sanitarium in Mount Vernon, Missouri (1905), and the temporary state capitol building in Jefferson City in 1912. He died on February 3, 1928 in St. Louis from a heart condition.
Mountain Grove City Hall, also known as Mountain Grove City Hall and Jail, is a historic city hall located at Mountain Grove, Wright County, Missouri. It was built in 1937-1938, and is a two-story, flat-roofed building in the Works Progress Administration (WPA) Modern style. The building is clad in unfinished native field stone with beaded mortar joints, a technique commonly referred to as "Ozark rock" or "giraffe rock" construction. It was funded by the WPA and constructed with local labor.
Administration Building, Missouri State Fruit Experiment Station, also known as the Old Administration Building, is a historic experiment station building located near Mountain Grove, Wright County, Missouri. It was designed by architect Henry H. Hohenschild and built in 1900. It is a 1 1⁄2-story, Tudor Revival style red brick building on a limestone block foundation. It measures 42 feet 5 inches (12.93 m) by 59 feet 10 inches (18.24 m). The building features a bellcast roof with pedimented gables, large scrolled brackets, and a squat round corner tower with a conical roof.
The City Square Park Bandstand, at 100 S. 9th St. in Humboldt, Kansas, was built in 1907. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.
