Highland Avenue Historic District is a national

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

located at Lexington,

Lafayette County, Missouri Lafayette County is a County (United States), county in the western portion of Missouri, part of the Kansas City metropolitan area. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 32,984. Its county seat is Lexington, Misso ...

. The district encompasses 64 contributing buildings, 6 contributing structures, and 2 contributing objects in a predominantly residential section of Lexington. It developed between about 1830 and 1930, and includes representative examples of

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 ...

and

Greek Revival Greek Revival architecture is a architectural style, style that began in the middle of the 18th century but which particularly flourished in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, predominantly in northern Europe, the United States, and Canada, ...

style architecture. Notable contributing resources include the William H. Russell House (c. 1845), William H. Russell House (c. 1840), Frick House (c. 1840), Arnold House (c. 1848), Madonna of the Trail Monument (1928), Hinesley House (c. 1840), O'Malley-Kelly House (c. 1850), and Old Winkler House (c. 1855). It was listed on the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government's official United States National Register of Historic Places listings, list of sites, buildings, structures, Hist ...

in 1983. The Missouri statue for the

Madonna of the Trail ''Madonna of the Trail'' is a series of 12 identical monuments to the spirit of pioneer women in the United States. The monuments were commissioned in the late 1920s by the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (NSDAR) ...

is located there.

References

Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Missouri Greek Revival architecture in Missouri Victorian architecture in Missouri Buildings and structures in Lafayette County, Missouri National Register of Historic Places in Lafayette County, Missouri {{LafayetteCountyMO-NRHP-stub