Travelers Hotel is a historic

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located at

Kirksville Kirksville is the county seat and most populous city in Adair County, Missouri. Located in Benton Township, Adair County, Missouri, Benton Township, its population was 17,530 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. Kirksville is home to ...

Adair County, Missouri Adair County is a county located in the northeastern part of the U.S. state of Missouri. The population census for 2020 was 25,314. As of July 1, 2021, the U.S. Census Bureau's Population Estimates for the county is 25,185, a -0.5% change. Adai ...

. It was built in 1923–1924, and is a four-story, brick building that consists of two wings flanking a central core. It has commercial storefronts on the first floor and features a centrally placed flat roof porch with

Doric order The Doric order was one of the three orders of ancient Greek and later Roman architecture; the other two canonical orders were the Ionic and the Corinthian. The Doric is most easily recognized by the simple circular capitals at the top of col ...

piers and a wide metal cornice. It was listed on the

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in 2009.

References

Hotel buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Missouri Hotel buildings completed in 1924 Buildings and structures in Adair County, Missouri National Register of Historic Places in Adair County, Missouri {{AdairCountyMO-NRHP-stub