The Annie Fisher Home at 2911 Old Highway 63 South has a new champion — Sheila Kitchen Ruffin. Ruffin is developing The Annie Fisher Project to save the home. She can be contacted at theanniefisherhouseproject@gmail.com. When the house was built, it was outside of Columbia. Today, it is between commercial buildings and apartments. To see a…
Month: October 2010
Virtual tour of 1927 home at 2007 S. Country Club Drive
Another historic home is on the market. This one, built in 1927, is at 2007 S. Country Club Drive. It was named to the Columbia Most Notable Properties List in 2008. This Tudor home features a staircase from Italy as well as practical features including six bedrooms, six bathrooms and two half baths. The home is roughly…
Oct. 11, 2010 event to highlight J.W. “Blind” Boone Home
A scale model of a proposed statue of J.W. “Blind” Boone, an early jazz and ragtime musician, will be unveiled at 6:30 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 11 at the Reynolds Alumni Center at the University of Missouri. Tickets to the reception are available by contacting Terra Crane at TKCrane@gocolumbiamo.com. But you can see a historic view…
See inside the Keene School … House
You don’t have to leave home to take a peek inside this former schoolhouse built in the 1800s, which is now a home. It’s up for sale you can take virtual tour by clicking here. The text that accompanies it says the bricks in the home were made by hand. While the conversion from school to house might seem unusual, from…