Black History… Events: Park meeting, preservation, DNA, birthday party and cemetery gets lively 6 May 20196 May 2019 Get out the slow cooker and shuffle your take-out menus, you're going to be busy this month! 7 p.m. Monday, May 6, 2019 -- Columbia City Council is meeting and…
Cemeteries… MU’s first female journalism graduate portrayed 10 Jul 201813 Jul 2018 The late Mary Paxton Keeley spoke from the beyond through an event sponsored by the Friends of the Historic Columbia Cemetery. Keeley, MU's first female journalism graduate, said through this…
Black History… Lynching: History finds a home 11 Oct 201610 Oct 2016 One of the reasons for this blog is to mark history, and historic homes are, in a way, a marker of history. But for a long time, there wasn't a…
Notable Properties List… New old images of Eero Saarinen’s Firestone Baars Chapel at Stephens College 28 Jun 20161 Jul 2016 Did you know there's a bit of St. Louis in Columbia? The same designer, Eero Saarinen, who designed The Arch in St. Louis designed Stephens College's Firestone Baars Chapel. If…
Black History… Civil War to today reflected in Second Missionary Baptist Church 9 Apr 20169 Apr 2016 A historic building helps society recall its history, as demonstrated by this magazine article on the 150-year-history of Second Missionary Baptist Church, now at Fourth and Broadway. Why say it…
Churches… This is why you get lost in Columbia, Missouri 3 Apr 2014 Bet you didn't know that Chapel Hill Road used to be West Boulevard South. Which now makes sense of the fact that the rest of West Boulevard often has addresses…
Churches… Party set for April 1 to celebrate historic properties 4 Mar 2014 Columbia's celebration of 2014's additions to the Notable Properties is scheduled for 7 p.m. on April 1 in City Hall at 701 E. Broadway. The event was postponed from Feb.…
Churches… Tour Sacred Historic Spots 1 Oct 20131 Oct 2013 If you love historic homes, you probably love history of all kinds and what could be more historic than where we nurture our hearts and souls? That is why I'm…