Built in 1911 for Columbia merchant Clifford W. Martin and his wife, this is a beautiful example of a Georgian-influenced American Foursquare.

For decades, the southern stretch of 8th Street between Locust and Elm resisted the noise of the wagon factories and steam laundries to the north, remaining a quiet neighborhood of homes and stables. But in the 20th century, its DNA began to change.

Only one original commercial building is left standing in the stretch of South 8th Street between Cherry Street and Locust Street.

In the 19th century, the stretch of South 8th Street from Broadway to Elm Street was known as University Street.

The Avenue of the Columns is the stretch of 8th Street from the old Boone County Courthouse columns on the north to the old Academic Hall columns of Mizzou on the south.

The house is located at the northwest corner of West Broadway and North Glenwood Avenue. It was built at the turn of the century on a three-acre lot in Garth’s Addition to Columbia which was approved on 9 June 1899.

This block of North 8th Street was subdivided by Nathaniel Warfield Wilson (1811-1890) as Wilson’s First Addition on July 1, 1854.

The I-house is one of the most recognizable folk architectural styles in the United States, representing a shift toward formality and social standing in rural and small-town settings.

Candle Light Lodge located at 1406 Business Loop 70 West, originally known as the Pierce Pennant Motor Hotel, is a significant surviving example of an early hotel/motel built in 1929 in a specific response to burgeoning automobile travel.

Today at the northwest corner of Broadway and 10th Street stands the first floor of the O’Rear building. The building was named for Miss Emma O’Rear (1824-1898), who had a residence and millinery shop on this corner before the O’Rear building was constructed around 1895. It originally was an impressive three-story building and a classic example of the brick commercial structures that defined Columbia’s business district during the late 1800s.