Fayette Courthouse Square Historic District is a national historic district 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 ...

. The district encompasses 35 contributing buildings in the central business district of Fayette. It developed between about 1828 and 1947 and includes representative examples of

Second Empire Second Empire may refer to: * Second British Empire, used by some historians to describe the British Empire after 1783 * Second Bulgarian Empire (1185–1396) * Second French Empire (1852–1870) ** Second Empire architecture, an architectural styl ...

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

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

Dr. Uriel S. Wright Office Dr. Uriel S. Wright Office is a historic doctor's office located at Fayette, Howard County, Missouri. It was built between 1828 and 1832, and is a small two-story, Federal style brick building. The building measures 19 feet square and features d ...

. Other notable buildings include the Fayette Public Library (1914), City Hall (1925), New Opera House Block (1903), A. F. Davis Bank (c. 1885), Commercial Bank (1910), The New Century Block Building (1902), Bell Block Building (1883), U.S. Post Office Building (1925), Howard County Jail and Residence (c. 1889-1894), and Howard County Courthouse (1887). (includes 16 photographs from 1997) an
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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 1998.

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Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Missouri Romanesque Revival architecture in Missouri Second Empire architecture in Missouri Italianate architecture in Missouri Buildings and structures in Howard County, Missouri National Register of Historic Places in Howard County, Missouri {{HowardCountyMO-NRHP-stub