Palmyra is a city in and the county seat of Marion County, Missouri, United States. The population was 3,595 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Hannibal Micropolitan Statistical Area. Thus, making Palmyra a northern suburb of the large city.
Jane Darwell was an American actress of stage, film, and television. With appearances in more than 100 major movies spanning half a century, Darwell is perhaps best remembered for her poignant portrayal of the matriarch and leader of the Joad family in the film adaptation of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, for which she received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Schuyler is a census-designated place (CDP) in Nelson County, Virginia, United States, close to Scottsville. The population as of the 2010 Census was 298.
Walker House, and variations including Walker Homestead and Walker Barn, may refer to:
The Walt Whitman Birthplace State Historic Site is a state historic site in West Hills, New York, listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The site preserves the birthplace of American poet Walt Whitman.
The David Gordon House and Collins Log Cabin were two historic homes located at Columbia, Missouri. The David Gordon House is a two-story, frame I-house. The 13-room structure incorporated original construction from about 1823 and several additions from the 1830s, 1890s and 1930s. The Collins Log Cabin was built in 1818, and is a single pen log house of the story and a loft design. They represent some of the first permanent dwellings in Columbia. The house, located in what is now Stephens Lake Park burned after arson in the early 1990s. The log cabin survived has been relocated from Stephens Lake Park to the campus of the Boone County Historical Society.
The Harry S Truman Birthplace State Historic Site is a state-owned property in Lamar, Barton County, Missouri, maintained by the Missouri Department of Natural Resources, preserving the 1+1⁄2-story childhood home of Harry S. Truman, the 33rd President of the United States. The future president was born here on May 8, 1884, in the downstairs southwest bedroom. The home was purchased by the state in 1957 and dedicated as a historic site in 1959 at a ceremony attended by Truman himself. The site was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1969.
The Mark Twain Birthplace State Historic Site is a publicly owned property in Florida, Missouri, maintained by the Missouri Department of Natural Resources, that preserves the cabin where the author Samuel Langhorne Clemens was born in 1835. The cabin is protected within a modern museum building that also includes a public reading room, several of Twain's first editions, a handwritten manuscript of his 1876 novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and furnishings from Twain's Connecticut home. The historic site is adjacent to Mark Twain State Park on a peninsula at the western end of man-made Mark Twain Lake. The cabin was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1969.
The Woodward Homestead is a historic house at 17 Main Street in Wakefield, Massachusetts, USA. It is an unusual style wood-frame house, with an older portion that is 1.5 stories and was probably built sometime before 1765. It was remodeled later in the 19th century in the Federal style, and in the 1830s the southern portion of the house was added, with Greek Revival style. The first known occupant was John Woodward in 1765; he was from a family that arrived in the area late in the 17th century.
The House at 5011 Sunset Drive is a historic home located in the Country Club District, Kansas City, Missouri. It was designed by architect Mary Rockwell Hook and was built in 1922–1923. It is a three-story, "L"-plan, Bungalow / American Craftsman style stone veneered dwelling with a two-story wing. It features an overhanging hipped roof with heavily bracketed eaves and an "outdoor living room".
The Pink House is a historic home located at Kansas City, Missouri. It was designed by architect Mary Rockwell Hook and built in 1922. It became known as the "Pink House" for its pink plaster exterior, which was a reference to San Francisco, whose 1915 world fair Hook had visited. It is a two-story dwelling with stucco walls, red clay roofing tile, three balconies, and brick chimney with an arcaded, roofed opening atop its stack.
Botherum was built for Madison C. Johnson in 1850 or 1851 by John McMurtry, a well-known architect and builder based in Lexington. The house was intended, in part, as a shrine to Johnson's late wife Sally Ann, a sister of Cassius Marcellus Clay who died giving birth in 1828.
The John Steinbeck House is a historic house restaurant and house museum in Salinas, California. The house was the birthplace and family home of author John Steinbeck (1902–1968). It is noted for its Queen Anne architecture. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.
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.
Lester S. and Missouri "Zue" Gordon Parker House is a historic home located at Jefferson City, Cole County, Missouri. It was built in 1905, and is a two-story, irregular plan, a Classical Revival style brick dwelling with a hipped roof. It has two two-story brick pavilions and features a full height central portico with classical pediment and Ionic order columns and pilasters. Also on the property are the contributing small two-story brick dwelling and root cellar.
Pleasant Green, also known as the Andrews-Chesnutt House and Winston Walker House, is a historic home located near Pilot Grove, Cooper County, Missouri. It was built about 1825, and is a two-story, five bay, Classic Revival style brick dwelling with a two-story wood-frame addition. It features a front portico supported by six columns. The house also has a 1+1⁄2-story brick section and one-story kitchen wing. Also on the property are the contributing smokehouse, a slave structure, and hexagonal wood-frame barn. It was the home of journalist Stanley Andrews (1894-1994).
Inglewood, also known as the Thomas and Emma Jane Donohoe Cockerill House and Petticoat House, is a historic home located at Glasgow, Howard County, Missouri. It was built in 1857, and is a two-story, Italianate style red brick dwelling with a two-story rear ell. It features a full-width front porch with square wooden columns.
Levi Barkley House, also known as the Barkley, Baxter, Landis House, is a historic home located near Hannibal, Marion County, Missouri. It was built about 1860, and is a two-story, vernacular Greek Revival style brick dwelling with a two-story rear ell. It has a double-pile, central hall, plan and sits on a stone foundation. It originally had a two-story front portico and rear gallery, later reduced to one story.
Merritt Violette House, also known as Merritt "Dad" Violette House, is a historic home located at Florida, Monroe County, Missouri. It was built in 1902–1903, and is a one-story, eclectic vernacular Queen Anne style frame dwelling with attic. It is sheathed in clapboard and fishscale shingles and has a complex hipped and gable roof. The house has a cross-in-square plan. It was the home of Merritt Violette, who saved Mark Twain's birthplace for the nation and instigated the Mark Twain State Park, and who built two camps for the Camp Fire Girls.
Capt. George and Attella Barnard House, also known as the Atella Jane Keith House and Julius C. Jackson House, is a historic home located in Louisiana, Pike County, Missouri. It was built about 1869, and is a two-story, "L"-shaped, brick dwelling with a flat topped hipped roof and limestone foundation. It exhibits Early Classical Revival, Greek Revival, Italianate style design elements. Its front facade is dominated by a two-story, classically detailed portico.
