Major Hotel, also known as Colonial Hotel and Franklin House Apartments, is a historic

hotel A hotel is an establishment that provides paid lodging on a short-term basis. Facilities provided inside a hotel room may range from a modest-quality mattress in a small room to large suites with bigger, higher-quality beds, a dresser, a ref ...

located at

Liberty Liberty is the ability to do as one pleases, or a right or immunity enjoyed by prescription or by grant (i.e. privilege). It is a synonym for the word freedom. In modern politics, liberty is understood as the state of being free within society fr ...

, Clay County, Missouri. It was designed by the architectural firm

Keene & Simpson Keene & Simpson was an American architectural firm based in Kansas City, Missouri, and in practice from 1909 until 1980. The named partners were architects Arthur Samuel Keene FAIA (1875–1966) and Leslie Butler Simpson AIA (1885–1961). I ...

and built in 1912. It is a three-story, rectangular brick building with Colonial Revival and

Prairie School Prairie School is a late 19th- and early 20th-century architectural style, most common in the Midwestern United States. The style is usually marked by horizontal lines, flat or hipped roofs with broad overhanging eaves, windows grouped in ...

style design elements. It features a low-pitched, hipped roof with wide, overhanging eaves and shed-roof dormers and one-story/ full-length

verandah A veranda or verandah is a roofed, open-air gallery or porch, attached to the outside of a building. A veranda is often partly enclosed by a railing and frequently extends across the front and sides of the structure. Although the form ''veran ...

porch. It was rebuilt after a fire in 1934 and converted to a 21-unit apartment building in 1987. 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 1992.

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Hotel buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Missouri Colonial Revival architecture in Missouri Prairie School architecture in Missouri Hotel buildings completed in 1912 Buildings and structures in Clay County, Missouri National Register of Historic Places in Clay County, Missouri Liberty, Missouri {{ClayCountyMO-NRHP-stub