John E. Cheatham House is a historic home located at
Lexington,
Lafayette County, Missouri. It was built about 1868, and is a two-story,
Italianate style brick dwelling. It has a low-pitched, metal-covered hipped roof with a bracketed
cornice
In architecture, a cornice (from the Italian ''cornice'' meaning "ledge") is generally any horizontal decorative moulding that crowns a building or furniture element—for example, the cornice over a door or window, around the top edge of a ...
. A one-story kitchen addition was constructed about 1880. Also on the property is the contributing brick root cellar.
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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 1993.
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References
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Missouri
Italianate architecture in Missouri
Houses completed in 1868
Houses in Lafayette County, Missouri
National Register of Historic Places in Lafayette County, Missouri
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