Pleasant Hill Downtown Historic District is a national

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in Pleasant Hill,

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. The district includes 53

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, a

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, and a

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in the

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of Pleasant Hill. It developed between about 1865 and 1959, and includes representative examples of

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, and

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style architecture. Notable buildings include: *the Missouri Pacific Depot (1903), 100 Wyoming St., a one-story brick railroad depot; *Sinclair Fuel and Service Station (c. 1950), 204 S. First St., one-story concrete block commercial building; *Benson Brothers Lumber Company (1925), 215 S. First St., a brick,

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commercial block, plus a contributing shed; *J. R. Prewitt & Sons Manufacturing, Inc. (c. 1926), 201C S. First St., a brick one-part commercial block, with broad stepped parapet walls; *Knorpp's Opera House (c. 1880), 135 S. First St., a two-part commercial block; *Wherritt Building (1924), 123 S. First St., brick one-part commercial block with a clipped corner entrance, surmounted by front facade parapet with modest

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; *Booth Public Library (1948), 125 S. Lake St., a concrete block, one-story

building with an irregular footprint; *Municipal Power Plant (1939), 300 Commercial St., two-story brick government building, with brick

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, limestone windowsills and parapet coping, decorative limestone blocks, and soldier brick lintels; *Pleasant Hill Post Office (1938), 124 S. Lake St.,

brick one-part commercial block, with a stone belt course and parapet coping. *Tucker Inn (1911), 306 Cedar St., brick two-part commercial block; *People's Theatre (c.1909), 108-110 S. Lake, brick and reinforced concrete two-part commercial block, with a vertical neon sign and large entrance awning; *Pleasant Hill City Hall (1959), 203 Paul St., low, horizontal-form building constructed of salmon-colored brick; *Memorial Building (1948), 212 Cedar St., brick with a stepped front parapet, stone coping, and header brick windowsills. an
site map
See also
alternative version of NRHP nomination with maps and 23 photos from 2003
at National Archives. The district 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 1994.

References

Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Missouri Colonial Revival architecture in Missouri Neoclassical architecture in Missouri Italianate architecture in Missouri Buildings and structures in Cass County, Missouri National Register of Historic Places in Cass County, Missouri {{CassCountyMO-NRHP-stub