Clarksville Historic District is a national historic district located at Clarksville,

Pike County, Missouri Pike County is a county on the eastern border of the U.S. state of Missouri, bounded by the Mississippi River. As of the 2010 census, the population was 18,516. Its county seat is Bowling Green. Its namesake was a city in middle Kentucky, a reg ...

. The district encompasses 65 contributing buildings in the central business district and surrounding residential sections of Clarksville. It developed between about 1840 and 1930, and includes representative examples of

Greek Revival The Greek Revival was an architectural movement which began in the middle of the 18th century but which particularly flourished in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, predominantly in northern Europe and the United States and Canada, but a ...

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 ...

, and Queen Anne style architecture. Located in the district is the separately listed Clifford-Wyrick House. Other notable buildings include the City Hall (1910), Sentinel Building (1867-1871), Clifford Banking Company (c. 1887), La Crosse Lumber Company (1923), Presbyterian Church, Methodist Church (1906), Masonic Temple (1903), and Clarksville Public Library (1910). (includes 28 photographs from 1991) 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 ...

in 1991.

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Geography of Pike County, Missouri Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Missouri Greek Revival architecture in Missouri Queen Anne architecture in Missouri Italianate architecture in Missouri National Register of Historic Places in Pike County, Missouri {{PikeCountyMO-geo-stub