then sold Jessee Gause's half interest to John W. Mallory. Born in Lewis ... Susan
Mallory lived in the house eight more years before selling it to William H. and.
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United States Department of the Interior
National Park Service
National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form See instructions in How to Complete National Register Forms Type all entries—complete applicable sections _______________
1.
Name
historic
Dryden-Louthan House
and/or common
2.
Location
street & number
^02
city, town
Palmyra
state
Mtssouri
3.
East
Ross
Street
__ vicinity of
code
Ownership
__ district
__ public
_x_ buildlng(s)
JL_ private
__ structure
__ both
__ site
Public Acquisition
__ object
__ In process
X
X
—— unoccupied Accessible X
NA
127
yes: restricted
—— agriculture
__ museum
__ commercial
—— park
__ educational
x
private residence
__ entertainment
—— religious
__ government
__ scientific
—— yes: unrestricted
__ industrial
—— transportation
__ no
__ military
__ otherr
Owner of Property L.
street & number
A02
city, town
Palmyra
and Cindy A.
Davis
East Ross state
:__ vicinity of
Missouri
Location of Legal Description
courthouse, registry of deeds, etc. street & number
Marion
city, town
Palmyra
title
occupied
Exp. 1O-3t-84
United States Department of the Interior
National Park Service
Sar.NPs
National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form See instructions in How to Complete National Register Forms Type all entries—complete applicable sections_______________
1.
Name
historic
Dryden-Louthan House
and/or common
2.
Location
street & number
^02
city, town
Palmyra
state
Missouri
3.
East
Street
Ownership
__ district
__ public
. vicinity of
building(s)
x
X
private
Public Acquisition
__ object
__ in process
,X_ work in progress Accessible
code
127
NA
__ agriculture
—— museum
__ commercial
—— park
—— educational
x
private residence
__ entertainment
—— religious
__ government
__ scientific
__ yes: unrestricted
__ industrial
—— transportation
__ no
__ military
—— other:
X
__ being considered x
occupied
__ unoccupied
__ both
yes: restricted
Owner of Property James
L.
street & number
A02
city, town
Palmyra
and Cindy A.
Day is
East Ross state
._ vicinity of
Missouri
63*161
Location of Legal Description
courthouse, registry of deeds, etc.
street & number
Marion
city, town
Palmyra
6.
Marion
Present Use
Status
__ site
5.
county
29
__ structure
4.
. not for publication
Classification
Category x
Ross
Recorder of Deeds
County
Courthouse
Missouri
63A61
Representation in Existing Surveys__________
tine
Missouri
date
198U
State Historical Survey
depository for survey records Missouri Department city, town Jefferson City
has this property been determined eligible?
federal
of Natural Resources,
X state
P.
0.
state
__ yes
__ county
Box
X
no
__ local
176
Missouri 65102
7.
Description
Condition
X
Check one
Check one
excellent
deteriorated
unaltered
good
ruins
altered
fair
unexposed
original site
X
moved
date
Describe the present and original (if known) physical appearance
The
Dryden-Louthan
has
suffered
to
permit
house main
is and
the
to
front
frieze
authentic
and
reconstructed.
The
Although
the
house
is
fashionable
residential
west
breaks
facade
pediment. floor. by
a
The
The has
sills
The
is
stone
plans
of
The It
the west
front. the
into a
to
The
end of
east
Inside
the
current
to
use as
been
The
lawns
wide
capped
arch
this
is
a
low
reconstruct
is
The ten
a bay of
feet
sidelights.
above and
the
filled
The window
all
floor-length
are
first-floor
Lintels
and
across
all
smaller porch on
the
porch
the
recessed
headers
thick.
be
the
center
deeply
and
one-story and a
brackets
to
from
also paired;
unusually it
is
than
by
while
had a
The
a white-painted
which was
but
stretchers are
low hipped
which
the west,
by
The
three-pane attic windows
the house
flanked
are
formerly
have
cupola,
rising more
radiating
muntins
to
ashlar
front
Both
are to
most
of
the
The rooms
in
of
front
the
second-floor
One
and an
house.
partially obscured
serve
ashlar water
Side
elevations
by wooden
staircases
apartments.
These are
first-floor window on
siding
corner.
All
has
been
the woodwork
library
surviving in
had
vertical
kitchen. pine
blocks
portion
the north
table repeat
and to
be
side has
also
door.
rear wing
are
a
refurbished
medallion, has
the
it.
to
by
it
fabric
a grandly-scaled
brackets.
construction.
four-over-four,
front
restoration.
southeast
They
are
a to
the other windows
the house originally
house,
restored. adjacent
its
its
both
Although
original
the owner
has
underlines
punctuated
Street
is
by
below
of
cut
the
created
been enclosed with
attached
two
of
rear wing of
and
vertical
finely
around
vestibules
converted
has
door
The west
has
details
been
Home
time of
foot
east;
by
It
scrolled
driveway
its
begun
brick.
by
style.
of
house.
foundation
part
face
are now being made
the
is
entrance
framed
Most the
been
the
crowned
semicircular
is
The
arches.
the whole way
second-floor
frieze
the
a
broad arch
glass.
running
as
to at
about
four-over-six;
side of
removed
a
unornamented.
three bays; south
situated
remains
molding which
formerly
present
to
elaborately
horizontal This
address
Italianate
recently
service wing
paired,
Second-floor windows
are
are
by
the
the
round
double-hung. windows
entry
pane of
two
lower
roof was
forward
curve of
single
above
a
has
the
enough
burnt-sienna-colored
incorporate a
bay.
example of
into apartments,
the brick walls.
lower
southeast,
imposing
restoration which
ornamented
block
zone on
above each
an
structure of
the west
cornices
is
conversion
two-story
block
roofs of
the a
House
through
at
the
library
basement. and
two-story
and
small
this would
gallery across
its
6-over-6 windows.
be
replaced
in
the
south
A
face.
carport
is
restoration.
stuccoed. is
grained.
the northwest
A stairway
flooring,
a
cases in
the The
curved
Two
rooms
corner,
have
and
have the
been
north
been
converted
to
southwest
corner of
this
front
entry
retains
staircase wall,
but
its
the
partially center
cupboards room
room for
leads
plaster
staircase
its to
ceiling itself
removed. running
about
impressive
sweep.
Most
house
must
that
descendant
of
be as
280
feet
notable
old
as
the original.
the
from is
the
a giant
house
house west ginko
itself.
tree A
to Home at
second
the
Street
still
northwest
smaller ginko
form an
corner is
of
the
no doubt
a
8.
Significance Areas of Significance— Check and justify below
Period prehistoric
archeology-prehistoric
community planning
landscape architecture
religion
1400-1499
archeology-historic
conservation
law
science
1500-1599
agriculture
economics
literature
sculpture
architecture
education
military
social
1700-1799
art
engineering
music
humanitarian
1800-1899
commerce
exploration settlement
philosophy
theater
1900-
communications
industry
politics government
transportation
x
1600-1699
X
other (specify)
invention
Specific dates
built
1858
Builder Architect
un k nOwn
Statement of Significance (in one paragraph)
The
Dryden-Louthan
listing
in
embodies its
the
early
with
the
house The
the
Italianate a
style
is
of
the
style
supported i s
case was
by
County, who,
to
their (by
it
neighbors.
John
J.-G.
and west
Blumenson)
displacement
his
D.
S.
of
of
built
in
1829,
the
era.
post-war headed
Civil
the
authorized Court
in
during
the
distrusted
by
1865 when
he
sold
legal
of
period,
In
his
fall the
Palmyra in
this
and occupied
country
Burlington, in
as
by
before
rich.3
Revival
and
and
War,
big
1850 which
eaves This in
leaders
than most
dated
the
from
larger
Palmyra,
lined
Italianate houses.
the boom and demonstrates
cities
sty 1e-
commun ity
but
the
1837
manifestation
better off
Hannibal,
Civil
building boom beginning about
the
In Marion
been variously In
the
the
large cupola.
the
certainly
Rifkind).
in
Rev i va1
prevalent
by a
it,
of abuse.
typically middle-class
built
style has
_' n
G reek
style among business
just
native of Virginia, him one of
his
faction
office in
for
born
in
the earliest
several races
Stephen
the oath
Missouri's
1814.
He came
settlers.-*
of the county's
for circuit Douglas
in
He
most
judge and
i860.
1863-
As
of allegiance and
Union a
governor,
political
threatened with murder placed house
in
Notman,
elevations, 1 wide
topped
were
by John
1 8^5 -
the most
seen
decades
New Jersey,
the domi nant
villa
this
the end of
for
it
both
The
of 1 8^0
city the
the east
Dryden-
the decisive
style.
radical
he was
practice
of
been
Carole
1arge Greek
eligible that
to Marion County with became a
prominent state
Following
successful lawyers
legislator
Republicans on under and
arrest
settled
partnership with
his
by
the StJohn W.
criminal
he was
Confederate
permanently son
try
His Louis
in St.
in
the
A
Dryden.^
In August where he
He died
in
supporter
position
on one
hand,
term of office ended Louis,
the
state Supreme
a difficult
sympathizers police.
1856,
Fremont,
charges.
elected Judge of
conservative
the other. by
to
he was
of
in
the outbreak of
appoi nted commi ssioner for Palmyra and vicinity by General
Gamble,
this
(by
until
toward
to administer
of HamiIton
i860
in
architecture
several
Philadelphia
terms,
popularity of
Unsuccessful
local
War he was
in
popular
seen
making
trained
has
absolute
to
the older
Dryden was a
family
in
to in
symmetrical
Italian
not
town with
attorney and he
was
imported
roof frequently
the most
experienced a
sides
Louthan House was
John
it
the men who built
house with
towered
is
C
style of
condition after
outstate Missouri
villa" and
Missouri,
criterion
Italianate
emerged out
In
under
scale and quality of detailing commensurate
Italian villa
hipped
rich
The early
County,
county seat,
not
an
square
"Tuscan
became
perhaps
the
Of a
have been
Louis.
and a
of
in Palmyra,
Places
the Athenaeum of
asymmet r i ca1,
however,
of Marion
St.
a
Street
original
gradually
the almost
called the
though
Ross
Historic
commun i ty of
its
to
for
and
brackets,
somet imes
cort rast
said
Palazzo in
the to
who built
blended with the
in
returned
style
Renaissance
Such was
East
characteristics
position
Philadelphia architect the
402
in northeast Missouri.
now being
and
at
Register of
distinctive
phase leading
is
House
National
ignominiously
of
that
conducted 1886
7
year a
9.
Major Bibliographical References_________
1.
Holcombe, .188*.
2.
Portrait
and
Chicago:
C.
10.
;
R.
I.
History of Marion County, Missouri. ———— ——————————— ———————
Biographical Q.
Owens
F,
Record
of Marion,
Rails
St.
and
Louis:
Pike
E.
F.
Counties,
Perkins,
Missouri.
r.n.
Geographical Data
Acreage of nominated property Quadrangle name
"Palmyra,
0.65
acre______
Ho."
Quadrangle scale 1:24,000
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west
point;
feet:
of
the
center of
thence west
thence
east
7.12
143
ft.;
ft on
a
Section thence
the
point 25,
south
north
line
on
the
Township 132 of
ft; Ross
north 58,
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thence 15
thence
ft.; north
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List all states and counties for properties overlapping state or county boundaries state___Missouri___________code
state
county____Marion__________code
code
11.
county
] 2 7_____
code
Form Prepared By
name/title
-\ _
Esley
Hamilton
organization_______'
street & number
•
1 1 69
__________________date
Ursula
city or town____University
1 2.
29
October
Avenue_____________telephone
City_________________state
1 984_____________
(31*0
727-0428_________
Missouri
63130__________
State Historic Preservation Officer Certification
The evaluated significance of this property within the state is: ________
national
y
_ state____ ^
local_________________________________
As the designated State Historic Preservation Officer for the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (Public Law 89665), I hereby nominate this property for inclusion in the National Register and certify that it has been evaluated according to the criteria and procedures set forth-by the National Park Service.
State Historic Preservation Officer signature ^>jp^'?^!^,
John Karel, dtie
Officer,
,
/V^^y^g^Xl_____________________
Director & Depu*5r State Historic- Preservation
