Hamilton-Brown Shoe Company Building, now the Selwyn Place Apartments, is a historic

factory A factory, manufacturing plant or a production plant is an industrial facility, often a complex consisting of several buildings filled with machinery, where workers manufacture items or operate machines which process each item into another. T ...

building located at Boonville, Cooper County, Missouri. It was built in 1919 by the Hamilton-Brown Shoe Company, and is a four-story, rectangular brick industrial building with a flat roof. The roof is framed by a corbelled

parapet A parapet is a barrier that is an extension of the wall at the edge of a roof, terrace, balcony, walkway or other structure. The word comes ultimately from the Italian ''parapetto'' (''parare'' 'to cover/defend' and ''petto'' 'chest/breast'). Whe ...

capped with tile coping. The building features a five-story elevator tower and four-story tower which housed restrooms. Also on the property are the contributing power plant building and oil house.] (includes 14 photos from 1988) 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 1990.

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Industrial buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Missouri Industrial buildings completed in 1919 National Register of Historic Places in Cooper County, Missouri Shoe factories 1919 establishments in Missouri Apartment buildings in Missouri Boonville, Missouri Caleres {{CooperCountyMO-NRHP-stub

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