Barbra A.B. Horrell, co-director of the African American Heritage Trail organization, will be the speaker at the 7 p.m. Jan. 31, 2023 meeting of CoMo Preservation, a group dedicated to preserving historic places and spaces. The meeting will be held in the Friends Room of the Columbia Public Library. All meetings of CoMo Preservation are…
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History blogger. Writer. Traveler. Curiosity drives me. I share what I learn at CoMoHistoricPlaces.com. My newest book, Historic Movie Theaters of Columbia, came out in October 2021. My 2017 book, From Melon Fields to Moon Rocks highlighted the life of Columbia resident Charles W. Gehrke, 1917-2009, a scientist and entrepreneur who founded ABC Labs, now Eurofins.
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…
Dec. 21: Bob Yapp, nationally known historic preservationist, to speak
Free event on Dec. 21 to feature nationally known historic preservationist
CoMo Preservation meeting 7 p.m. Nov 29
Meeting of CoMo Preservation 7 p.m. Nov. 29 in the Columbia Public Library.
KOPN History Minute kicks off
KOPN 89.5 community radio begins airing History Minute
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…
Speaker at Sept. 27 Historic Preservation Alliance of Columbia meeting
A preservationist from Jefferson City will speak at the 7:30 p.m. Sept. 27 meeting of the Historic Preservation Alliance of Columbia. The meeting is open to the public.
You can help save historic buildings
Meeting of Historic Preservation Alliance of Columbia at 7 p.m. on Aug. 30 to stop demolition of buildings.
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…