Williamson-Kennedy School is a historic

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building located at Poplar Bluff,

Butler County, Missouri Butler County is a county located in the southeast Ozark Foothills Region in the U.S. state of Missouri. As of the 2020 Census, the county's population was 42,130. The largest city and county seat is Poplar Bluff. The county was officially org ...

. It was built in 1922, and is a three-story, rectangular plan, Colonial Revival style brick building. It sits on a cast

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foundation and has a flat roof. The two primary entrances located in one-story projecting wings at the corners of the building and features cast concrete

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s. It was listed on the

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in 1998.

References

School buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Missouri Colonial Revival architecture in Missouri School buildings completed in 1922 Buildings and structures in Butler County, Missouri National Register of Historic Places in Butler County, Missouri 1922 establishments in Missouri Education in Butler County, Missouri Poplar Bluff, Missouri {{ButlerCountyMO-NRHP-stub