The Central Dairy Building, also known as Downtown Appliance and Gunther's Games, is a historic commercial building located in downtown

Columbia, Missouri Columbia is a city in the U.S. state of Missouri. It is the county seat of Boone County and home to the University of Missouri. Founded in 1821, it is the principal city of the five-county Columbia metropolitan area. It is Missouri's fourth ...

. It was built in 1927, and enlarged to its present size in 1940. It is a two-story brick building with

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ornamentation elaborate classical and baroque design motifs. Also on the property is a contributing brick

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, constructed about 1940. Today the building houses an appliance store and restaurants on the first floor and lofts on the second. It was listed on the

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in 2005.

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Commercial buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Missouri Commercial buildings completed in 1927 Buildings and structures in Columbia, Missouri National Register of Historic Places in Boone County, Missouri {{BooneCountyMO-NRHP-stub