Coleman Hall, also known as the President's House, is a historic home located at Fayette,

Howard County, Missouri Howard County is located in the U.S. state of Missouri, with its southern border formed by the Missouri River. As of the 2020 census, the population was 10,151. Its county seat is Fayette. The county was organized January 23, 1816, and named ...

. It was built in 1874, and is a two-story, double pile, brick dwelling with a two-story rear ell. It has a

central hall plan The central-passage house, also known variously as central hall plan house, center-hall house, hall-passage-parlor house, Williamsburg cottage, and Tidewater-type cottage, was a vernacular, or folk form, house type from the colonial period onward ...

in the Late Georgian style and

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 ...

style design elements. The hipped roof is topped by a

cupola In architecture, a cupola () is a relatively small, most often dome-like, tall structure on top of a building. Often used to provide a lookout or to admit light and air, it usually crowns a larger roof or dome. The word derives, via Italian, fro ...

. It was built to be donated as a president's house for Central Methodist College. (includes 21 photographs from 1985) It was listed on the

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in 1986. It is located in the Fayette Residential Historic District.

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Individually listed contributing properties to historic districts on the National Register in Missouri Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Missouri Houses completed in 1874 Buildings and structures in Howard County, Missouri National Register of Historic Places in Howard County, Missouri {{HowardCountyMO-NRHP-stub