Blackwater Commercial Historic District is a national
historic district
A historic district or heritage district is a section of a city which contains older buildings considered valuable for historical or architectural reasons. In some countries or jurisdictions, historic districts receive legal protection from c ...
located at
Blackwater,
Cooper County, Missouri. The district encompasses 12
contributing buildings
In the law regulating historic districts in the United States, a contributing property or contributing resource is any building, object, or structure which adds to the historical integrity or architectural qualities that make the historic distric ...
in the
central business district
A central business district (CBD) is the commercial and business centre of a city. It contains commercial space and offices, and in larger cities will often be described as a financial district. Geographically, it often coincides with the "city ...
of Blackwater. It developed between about 1889 and 1950, and includes representative examples of
Late Victorian style architecture. Notable buildings include the Frady Hotel (c. 1889), Adam Schuster Building (c. 1915), Lee O'Neal Hardware Store (c. 1913), and L. F. Berry, John Smith and Lizzie Fisher Building (c. 1904).
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It was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...
in 2005.
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References
Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Missouri
Victorian architecture in Missouri
National Register of Historic Places in Cooper County, Missouri
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