Walnut Park Farm Historic District

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Walnut Park Farm Historic District
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Nearest city Jct. of MO 59 and MO 71, near St. Joseph, Missouri
Coordinates 39°49′56″N94°48′46″W / 39.83222°N 94.81278°W / 39.83222; -94.81278 Coordinates: 39°49′56″N94°48′46″W / 39.83222°N 94.81278°W / 39.83222; -94.81278
Area 87 acres (35 ha)
Architectural style Gabled ell
NRHP reference # 99001597 [1]
Added to NRHP December 22, 1999

Walnut Park Farm Historic District, also known as the R.L. McDonald Farm, Country Club Farm, Creek Farm, and Schreiber Farm, is a historic farm and national historic district near St. Joseph, Andrew County, Missouri. The district encompasses four contributing buildings, one contributing site, and one contributing structure on a livestock breeding farm near St. Joseph. It developed between about 1870 and 1914, and includes a brick, 1 12-story gabled ell residence (c. 1880), an L-form basement barn (c. 1870), a stable (c. 1890), root cellar (c. 1900), and the site of an enclosed track and show ring where the farm's purebred horses were trained and shown to prospective buyers (c. 1880). [2] :5 The brick residence has since been demolished.

St. Joseph, Missouri Place in Missouri, United States

St. Joseph is a city in and the county seat of Buchanan County, Missouri, United States. Small parts of St. Joseph extend into Andrew County, Missouri, United States. It is the principal city of the St. Joseph Metropolitan Statistical Area, which includes Buchanan, Andrew, and DeKalb counties in Missouri and Doniphan County, Kansas. As of the 2010 census, St. Joseph had a total population of 76,780, making it the eighth largest city in the state, and the third largest in Northwest Missouri. St. Joseph is located roughly thirty miles north of the Kansas City, Missouri city limits.

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It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999. [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. Nancy Sandehn and Roger Maserang (August 1999). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Walnut Park Farm Historic District" (PDF). Missouri Department of Natural Resources. Retrieved 2016-09-01.