Clinton Square 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 Clinton,

Henry County, Missouri Henry County is a county located in the western portion of the U.S. state of Missouri. As of the 2010 census, the population was 22,272. Its county seat is Clinton. The county was organized December 13, 1834 as Rives County but was renamed in ...

. The district encompasses 62 contributing buildings, 1 contributing structure, and 1 contributing object 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 Clinton. It developed between about 1885 and 1957 and includes representative examples of

Italianate The Italianate style was a distinct 19th-century phase in the history of Classical architecture. Like Palladianism and Neoclassicism, the Italianate style drew its inspiration from the models and architectural vocabulary of 16th-century Italian R ...

and

Romanesque Revival Romanesque Revival (or Neo-Romanesque) is a style of building employed beginning in the mid-19th century inspired by the 11th- and 12th-century Romanesque architecture. Unlike the historic Romanesque style, Romanesque Revival buildings tended to ...

style architecture. Located in the district is the separately listed

Anheuser-Busch Brewing Association Building Anheuser-Busch Brewing Association Building, also known as the Lobaugh Building and Henry County Museum and Cultural Arts Center, is a historic Anheuser-Busch distribution building located at Clinton, Henry County, Missouri. It was built in 1886, ...

. Other notable buildings include the Fristoes Body Shop Office (c. 1905), Whitehead Consultants (c. 1905), Texas Room / Pit Stop Pub (c. 1890, 1940), State Farm Insurance (c. 1876), Montgomery Ward (1940s), J.C. Penney / Brownsbergers / Eberting's Main Street Central (c. 1890s, 1940), Old City Hall (1891), Delozier Building (1887), Crest Cinema (c. 1950), Henry County Courthouse (c. 1893), and the Bandstand on Courthouse Square (c. 1921). (includes 26 photographs from 2004 and 2006) 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 2007.

References

Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Missouri Italianate architecture in Missouri Romanesque Revival architecture in Missouri Buildings and structures in Henry County, Missouri National Register of Historic Places in Henry County, Missouri {{HenryCountyMO-NRHP-stub