Lewis & Clark Trip Day 11: Boonville, MO (5/18/2021)

Tuesday, May 18, 2021
A walking tour of Boonville, MO, which was the oldest existing town west of St Charles. The name comes from Nathan and Daniel Morgan Boone, the sons of Daniel Boone. His sons established their business near here, delivering salt from area licks to St Louis.

Cooper County Courthouse (1912-1913, by Robert G Kirsch)

Small Statue of Liberty (1950) was
dedicated by the Boy Scouts of America

We have seen many copies of the Statue of Liberty on this trip, in parks but also on private property. However, the areas we have traveled have been very conservative, which indicates that these people do not understand the original meaning of the Statue of Liberty. They just like the word "Liberty"? Some of the small ladies of liberty are holding streetlight-size lamps.

Ballantine House (1822, as a hotel,
using German style brickwork)

Nimrod-Rector House (log cabin 1829, brick structure 1840)

Isle of Capri Casino and Hotel (2001)

Another feature of the areas we are traveling are casinos. Originally the state of Missouri required all casinos to be on riverboats, but now they can be on land, but with river frontage.

Boonville or Katy Depot (1911-1912) is the only Spanish
Mission style train station on the Missouri-Kansas-Texas/
MKT Railroad, now on the Katy Trail

Mural on Derailed Coffee Bar & Café

Mitchell Antique Motorcar Museum in the Mitchell Lewis
Motorcar Company building where autos were produced 1900-1923

Hain House (1836, with additions) Swiss immigrant
George Hain was the first of the Hains to live here,
his descendants continued to occupy the house until 1981

As the family expanded, so did the Hain House

500 Fourth Street (1917, English Tudor)

Sombart House (1910)

Christ Episcopal Church (1844, in Gothic style)

Hitch House (1890, as a Queen Anne, remodeled as a Colonial)

Former Kemper Military School and College (est 1844)

Thamnophis sirtalis sirtalis/Eastern
Garter Snake (we believe he was dead!)

815 Main Street (1894, in Queen Anne style)

Roslyn Heights (1895, in Queen Anne style
with Romanesque Revival affinities)

Andrews-Wing House (1855, considered a piano nobile!)

Stephens House (1846, constructed with bricks made on-site)
was a subject of the painter, George Caleb Bingham
who lived in Boonville from 1819-1877

606 Sixth Street has a "clever" sign: I'll Keep My Freedom,
My Bible, My Guns and My Money - You can Keep
"The Change" (it would make more sense if anyone was really
taking his freedom, his Bible, his guns, or his money)

Turner Hall (1847, as a church, then purchased by a German
men's chorale group and gymnastics club in 1895)

Thespian Hall (1855-1857, in Greek Revival style)
was used as a hospital during the Civil War

First Presbyterian Church (1904, in Neoclassical style)

Former Independent Order of Odd Fellows/IOOF (1920)

Murals on the former Butternut Bread Bakery,
a division of Boonville Hostess Brands Bakery

Palace Building (1883)

Palace Building detail (KSS)

Zuzak Building (two 1860s shops combined in 1917
for an early five-and-dime store)

Former Gmelich and Schmidt Jewelry Company
(1870s); the glass canopy is a recent addition

Statue (2004, by Harry Weber) of
Hannah Allison Cole, who arrived in 1809
with husband and nine children, and
remained despite her husband being killed
by Native Americans the first year; she is
considered the Mother of Boonslick/Boonville

Mansion House (1869, as a hotel on the Santa Fe Trail)

Old Cooper County Jail (1848) that in 1884 housed
Frank James, the brother of Jesse James

Walter Williams House (1850s) belonged to journalist,
editor and newspaper owner, and
 president of the University of Missouri

Bell House (1886, in Queen Anne style) was home to the
mayor and Apple King of Missouri, Charles Christian Bell

Thro House (c 1866) was built for a lumber company owner

701 High Street (1898 in Victorian style)

623 High Street (1894, bBy George Franklin Barber)

Andrews House (1881-1883, in Italianate style)

Grand Victorian Manor (1880)

Mural on the Main Street Diner; although the mural
is deteriorating, the Main Street Diner served us such
a good dinner, we returned for breakfast!

A pair of Vulpes vulpes/Red Foxes (KSS)

Katy Trail Railroad Bridge (1931-1932)
is a vertical lift bridge

Harley Park Lookout Point view of the Missouri River

Two of the Harley Park Hopewell Mounds
(Middle Woodland Period 100 BCE to 500 CE)

One of the larger Hopewell Mounds (with a playground
in front and a water treatment plant behind it)

Next: More Missouri.