West Main Street Historic Resources Survey

Lenhausen, Emily; Finch, Brad; Nugent, Rachel

Introduction: "The City of Jefferson (City) contracted with Rosin Preservation, LLC to conduct a reconnaissance-level survey of historic residential resources within a portion of the West Main Street neighborhood which includes three early twentieth-century plats. The entire West Main Street neighborhood, which is a roughly forty-five-acre area, contains a mixture of commercial, residential, educational, and industrial resources associated with the City's early development through the present. The objective of this survey is to generate up-to-date and accurate information to identify historic resources within the project area to assist with preservation and planning activities. Preservation activities include, but area not limited to, the identification or properties eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places or for a local conservation district. A further objective is to identify additional areas which merit survey. The Survey Area encompasses only a portion of the West Main Street neighborhood and is the first step in resource identification within the wider West Main Street Neighborhood area. The Survey Are contains 145 primary resources. The irregular Survey Area contains resources typical of residential neighborhoods, primarily single-family or multi-family residences, maintain their historic functions. Nearly 33 percent of the primary resources have auxiliary resources such as garages or outbuildings. The primary resources represents a range of construction dates, from ca. 1900 to 2007. Approximately 66 percent were constructed between 1930 and 1945 while roughly 5 percent were built during the Post World War II period (1945-1959). These dates correspond to the platting of the area and renewed construction activities following World War II. They reflect the early and mid-twentieth-century residential expansion of Jefferson City as families moved away from the commercial center and into less developed areas. The West Main Street Historic Resources Survey encompasses three objectives: 1) to identify, record, photograph, and evaluate through architectural/historic survey those individual properties and potential districts in the project area that on the basis of age, integrity, and significance meet the eligibility criteria for listing in the National Register of Historic Places, or as a conservation district and; 2) to identify and characterize those portions of the project area that on the basis of insufficient age, integrity, or significance warrant no further study to exclude them from consideration for nomination in the National Register of Historic Places, as a local historic landmark, or as a conservation district; and to provide recommendations for future preservation activities." Project funding was provided in part by a Historic Preservation Fund grant to the Missouri State Historic Preservation Office administered by the State, Tribal, Local Plans and Grants division, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior (grant number P18AF00025).

West Main Street Historic Resources Survey

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