Kicking off 2023 with historic news flashes

CoMo Preservation, a new historic preservation nonprofit founded in May of 2022 is kicking off a new project. Starting on Jan. 1, 2023, CoMo Preservation will begin CoMo 365, a daily news flash about an event that happened on that day in history in Columbia, Missouri. You can follow along via CoMo Preservation’s new website…

National speaker at Dec. 21 CoMo Preservation meeting

CoMo Preservation’s meeting at 7 p.m. on Dec. 21 in the Columbia Public Library will feature Bob Yapp speaking to via Zoom. Yapp has been involved in historic preservation and rehabbing for decades and had his own PBS program, About Your House on PBS. In the four years after it started in 1996, the program…

MU official to speak Oct. 26 at Historic Preservation meeting

MU Director of Campus Facilities Space Planning & Management Gerald Morgan will speak at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 26 in a meeting of the Historic Preservation Alliance of Columbia in the Friends Room of the Columbia Public Library. Morgan will explain the complex decision-making process that goes into deciding which MU buildings to save and…

10 historic places highlighted

It’s time for nominations for the city’s Most Notable Properties list and this article in the July 5, 2022 Columbia Missourian. The article highlights 10 properties already on the list. So what is the Most Notable Property list? Any property 50 years or older, with in the city’s corporate limits with architectural or historic features…