Here are two great ways to get a peek inside a historic home and a historic school-house. At 10 a.m. Saturday, August 17 2013, this former one-room school at 4713 Brown Station Road, Columbia, will go up for auction. Named the Keene School, the United Country’s website outlines its history as a former school-house and includes…
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June 9, 10, 11, 2013 festival features historic music of J.W. “Blind” Boone era
On June 9, 10, and 11, 2013, you’ll be able to hear history with the music from the era of J.W. “Blind” Boone, who lived at the historic home at 10 N. Fourth St., which is currently being considered for interior renovations. The “Blind” Boone Early Jazz and Ragtime Festival tickets are on sale now…
2013 Most Notable Properties Highlights
In case you missed it, here are links to coverage of the February 2013 announcement of six historic sites named to the Columbia Most Notable Properties List by the Columbia Historic Preservation Commission. Qualifications for being named to the list include the property being older than 50 years, within Columbia’s city limits and highlights the…
Changes to demolition permits pondered
With 2012 seeing the loss of the Annie Fisher house (circa 1920s) and several other older dwellings, the Columbia Planning and zoning Commission is considering changing the time period for demolition requests and the nomination process to historic preservation districts. Read the Sept. 22, 2012 Columbia Tribune article, “Panel working on a new demolition, historic…
Dec. 4 concert for historic home of John W. “Blind” Boone
When I mentioned to a friend I wanted to write a book about historic homes, she suggested a title for it: If these walls could talk. Well, on Dec. 4, 2011, in a way, the walls of one historic home will talk, and it will be the language of music. A fund-raising concert will be…
Roots N Blues, ragtime and historic homes
It is no wonder Columbia is once again hosting the Roots N Blues N BBQ festival. This city has a long history with music. Until 1927, J.W. “Blind” Boone lived at 10 N. Fourth Street. At the time, Boone was one of the world’s most famous musicians, according to the website of the J.W. “Blind”…
Historic Gala Postponed to Feb. 16, 2011
A new date, Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2011 has been set for the Most Notable Properties gala, an annual event by the City of Columbia’s Historic Preservation Commission. The gala will be held the Daniel Boone Regional Library Friends Room. This Columbia, Missouri, event is when the Historic Preservation Commission announces and gives a presentation on…
Demolition of four 90-plus-year-old homes planned
Should historic homes be demolished to accommodate the growth of Columbia? As Columbia grows, it will face more and more such questions, just as it has in the past. The Missouri Theatre, built in 1928, displaced the home that was once there. Now, there are four homes built from 1900-1915 that will probably be demolished to accommodate the…
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…
Opportunity or Trajedy? Guitar Mansion/Confederate Hill
Guitar Mansion, dubbed Confederate Hill in the 1940s, at 2815 Oakland Gravel Road is going up for Absolute Real Estate Auction on October 18, 2010. A viewing day is slated for Sept. 18, 2010. An absolute auction means whatever the price is when the gavel goes down, that what the house will be sold for. Some…