Walter Burley Griffin was an American architect and landscape architect. He is known for designing Canberra, Australia's capital city and the New South Wales towns of Griffith and Leeton. He has been credited with the development of the L-shaped floor plan, the carport and an innovative use of reinforced concrete.
Lebanon is a city in and the county seat of Laclede County in Missouri. The population was 14,474 at the time of the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Laclede County. The Lebanon Micropolitan Statistical Area consists of Laclede County.
George Washington Carver National Monument is a unit of the National Park Service in Newton County, Missouri. The national monument was founded on July 14, 1943, by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who dedicated $30,000 to the monument. It was the first national monument dedicated to an African American and first to a non-president.
Prairie School is a late 19th- and early 20th-century architectural style, most common in the Midwestern United States. The style is usually marked by horizontal lines, flat or hipped roofs with broad overhanging eaves, windows grouped in horizontal bands, integration with the landscape, solid construction, craftsmanship, and discipline in the use of ornament. Horizontal lines were thought to evoke and relate to the wide, flat, treeless expanses of America's native prairie landscape.
The Coca-Cola Bottling Company Building, also known as the Kelly Press Building, is a historic commercial building located on Hitt Street in downtown Columbia, Missouri. It was built in 1935, and is a 1 1/2-story, Colonial Revival style brick building with a side gable roof with three dormers. It has a long one-story rear ell. Today it houses Uprise Bakery, Ragtag Cinema, Ninth Street Video, and Hitt Records.
The Sanford F. Conley House is a historic home located at Columbia, Missouri. It is an ornate 19th century residence in the Italianate architectural style. Built in 1868 as a residence for his family by the businessman Sanford Francis Conley (1838–1890). The house is near the University of Missouri campus. After being added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973, the house was purchased by the university and houses the school's "excellence in teaching" program.
Burley Manor is a historic home located in Berlin, Worcester County, Maryland. It is a Federal-style brick house built about 1832.
Roaring River State Park is a public recreation area covering of 4,294 acres (1,738 ha) eight miles (13 km) south of Cassville in Barry County, Missouri. The state park offers trout fishing on the Roaring River, hiking on seven different trails, and the seasonally open Ozark Chinquapin Nature Center.
The Scott Joplin House State Historic Site is located at 2658 Delmar Boulevard in St. Louis, Missouri. It preserves the Scott Joplin Residence, the home of composer Scott Joplin from 1901 to 1903. The house and its surroundings are maintained by the Missouri Department of Natural Resources as a state historic site. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places and designated a U.S. National Historic Landmark in 1976.
The John N. and Elizabeth Taylor House is a historic home in Columbia, Missouri which has been restored and once operated as a bed and breakfast. The house was constructed in 1909 and is a 2+1⁄2-story, Colonial Revival style frame dwelling. It features a wide front porch and side porte cochere. The home was featured on HGTV special called "If walls could talk."
The Moses U. Payne House, also known as Lynn Bluffs and Roby River Bed and Breakfast, is a historic home near the Missouri River in Rocheport, Missouri. It was constructed in 1856–1857, and is a large frame central hall plan I-house. It is five bays wide and features an ornamental ironwork front porch.
The Doerr–Brown House is a "Missouri German house" in Perryville, Missouri.
The August Sehrt House is a historic home located at Augusta, St. Charles County, Missouri. It was built about 1860 by German immigrant, August Sehrt. He came to America in 1848 with several family members, including his brother, Julius Sehrt who went on to become the most extensive land owner in St. Charles, MO. It is a 1+1⁄2-story, five bay, brick dwelling on a stone foundation and with a side-gable roof. The building houses the Augusta History Museum.
The Sigma Alpha Epsilon Building is a historic Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity house located near the University of Missouri at Columbia, Missouri. It was built about 1908 to house the Welch Military Academy and took its present form in 1929; it was restored in 1965-1966 after a fire. It is a 2+1⁄2-story, "T"-plan, Neo-Classical Revival style brick building. The front facade features a central pedimented portico with six two-story stone Ionic order columns.
Lucius P. Buchanan House, also known as the Ralph L. Gray Alumni Center of Missouri Southern State University, is a historic home located at Joplin, Jasper County, Missouri. It was built in 1926, and is a two-story, Spanish Revival style masonry dwelling covered in protective stucco. It has a low-pitched tiled gable roof and features multiple arched entryways and window frames, recessed porch, decorative ornamentation, and wrought iron embellishments. The prominent landscape architects Hare & Hare laid out the gardens, swimming pool and extended grounds.
Johnson Morrow House is a historic home located at Callao, Macon County, Missouri. It was built about 1912, and is a two-story, Queen Anne style frame dwelling. The house measures 37 feet by 49 feet and is cubic in shape. It has a complex hipped roof, large side bays, and a full front porch.
Goodman–Stark House, also known as the Stark–Unsell House, is a historic home located at Louisiana, Pike County, Missouri. It was built about 1894, and is a 2+1⁄2-story, Queen Anne style brick dwelling. It has a steeply pitched hipped and gabled roof with intersecting ridges and a front-facing gable, prominent masonry chimneys and an asymmetrical facade with bay windows and balustraded porches.
Missouri District Warehouse, also known as the Weston Tobacco Warehouse and Weston Burley House No. 1, is a historic warehouse located at Weston, Platte County, Missouri. It was built in 1937, and is a sprawling, two-story, rectangular, steel-frame building sheathed with corrugated metal. It measures 125 feet by 300 feet. It was built as a loose-leaf tobacco auction warehouse and curing barn.
J. F. Schroer House-Store is a historic home and store located at Augusta, St. Charles County, Missouri. The house was built about 1865–1866, and is a 2+1⁄2-story, brick dwelling with a central passage plan. The store occupied the first floor with living quarters above. It measures approximately 50 feet wide by 36 feet deep and has a side-gable roof and wine cellar.
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.
