Possum Walk Hotel

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Possum Walk Hotel
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Location North of Burlington Junction, near Burlington Junction, Missouri
Coordinates 40°29′46″N95°5′10″W / 40.49611°N 95.08611°W / 40.49611; -95.08611 Coordinates: 40°29′46″N95°5′10″W / 40.49611°N 95.08611°W / 40.49611; -95.08611
Area less than one acre
Built 1873 (1873)-1875
Architect Scott, Theodore
Architectural style Italianate
NRHP reference # 83001033 [1]
Added to NRHP March 29, 1983

Possum Walk Hotel is a historic hotel building located near Burlington Junction, Nodaway County, Missouri. It was built between 1873 and 1875, and is a two-story, Italianate style "L"-plan brick building. It features a long shed roof porch on the facade of the ell extension and a small porch with balcony at the main entrance. [2] :2-3

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Burlington Junction, Missouri City in Missouri, United States

Burlington Junction is a city in Nodaway County, Missouri, United States. The population was 537 at the 2010 census.

Nodaway County, Missouri County in the United States

Nodaway County is a county located in the northwest part of Missouri. As of the 2010 census, the population was 23,370. Its county seat is Maryville. The county was organized February 14, 1845, and is named for the Nodaway River. It is the largest in area of the counties added to Missouri in the 1836 Platte Purchase, and the fourth-largest county in Missouri.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. [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. Thomas W. Carneal (September 1980). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Possum Walk Hotel" (PDF). Missouri Department of Natural Resources. Retrieved 2017-01-01. (includes 11 photographs from 1980)