Weston Historic District is a national

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located at Weston, Platte County, Missouri. The district encompasses 16 full blocks and portions of 8 additional city blocks in the

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and surrounding residential sections of Weston. It developed between about 1840 and 1920, and includes representative examples of

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and Late Victorian style architecture. Notable buildings include the John Maitland Home (c. 1860), Humphrey House, Railey Brothers Banking Building, Hull Mill, Methodist Church (1868), old Presbyterian Church (1846), German Evangelical Lutheran Church (1867), Weston Baptist Church or Weston Historical Museum and Library Building(1902), and McGhay House. (includes 28 photographs) an
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in 1972.

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Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Missouri Federal architecture in Missouri Victorian architecture in Missouri Buildings and structures in Platte County, Missouri National Register of Historic Places in Platte County, Missouri {{PlatteCountyMO-NRHP-stub