Salisbury Square Historic District is a national

historic district A historic district or heritage district is a section of a city which contains older buildings considered valuable for historical or architectural reasons. In some countries or jurisdictions, historic districts receive legal protection from c ...

located at

Salisbury Salisbury ( ) is a cathedral city in Wiltshire, England with a population of 41,820, at the confluence of the rivers Avon, Nadder and Bourne. The city is approximately from Southampton and from Bath. Salisbury is in the southeast of Wil ...

Chariton County, Missouri Chariton County is a county located in the north-central portion of the U.S. state of Missouri. As of the 2020 census, the population was 7,408. Its county seat is Keytesville. The county was organized November 16, 1820, from part of Howard C ...

. The district encompasses eight

contributing buildings In the law regulating historic districts in the United States, a contributing property or contributing resource is any building, object, or structure which adds to the historical integrity or architectural qualities that make the historic distric ...

in an exclusively residential section of Salisbury. It developed between about 1870 and 1916, and includes representative examples of Queen Anne 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 architecture. The district reflects a collection of intact Queen Anne houses that remain notable in form and design. 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 2009.

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Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Missouri Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Missouri Queen Anne architecture in Missouri Prairie School architecture in Missouri Buildings and structures in Chariton County, Missouri National Register of Historic Places in Chariton County, Missouri {{CharitonCountyMO-NRHP-stub