Waddell House, also known as Pastorium of the First Baptist Church or Van Amburg House, is a historic home located at Lexington,

Lafayette County, Missouri Lafayette County is a county in the western portion of Missouri, part of the Kansas City metropolitan area. As of the 2010 census, the population was 33,381. Its county seat is Lexington. The county was organized November 16, 1820 from Cooper ...

. It was built about 1840, and is a two-story, red brick dwelling on a partial basement. It features decorative elements such as clustered chimney pots, scalloped vergeboards with pendants, and a spindled stickwork

Late Victorian Victorian architecture is a series of architectural revival styles in the mid-to-late 19th century. ''Victorian'' refers to the reign of Queen Victoria (1837–1901), called the Victorian era, during which period the styles known as Victorian we ...

porch with

mansard roof A mansard or mansard roof (also called a French roof or curb roof) is a four-sided gambrel-style hip roof characterised by two slopes on each of its sides, with the lower slope, punctured by dormer windows, at a steeper angle than the upper. The ...

. William Bradford Waddell acquired the house in trade for stock in the local Baptist Female College in 1869. (includes 9 photographs from 1979) 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 1979. It is located in the

Old Neighborhoods Historic District Old Neighborhoods Historic District is a national Historic district (United States), historic district located at Lexington, Missouri, Lexington, Lafayette County, Missouri. The district encompasses 267 contributing buildings in a predominant ...

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Individually listed contributing properties to historic districts on the National Register in Missouri Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Missouri Victorian architecture in Missouri Houses completed in 1840 Houses in Lafayette County, Missouri National Register of Historic Places in Lafayette County, Missouri {{LafayetteCountyMO-NRHP-stub