East Town/Old Joplin Historic Resources Survey 2020 - Phase II

Keenoy, Ruth; Sheppard, Susan; Foley, Terri

Introduction: "In 2019, the City of Joplin issued a Request for Proposal to conduct an intensive level survey, Phase II, of the East Town (Old Joplin) neighborhood. The project was funded by a Historic Preservation Fund (HPF) grant received by the City of Joplin from the Missouri State Historic Preservation Office (MO-SHPO) and the National Park Service. The project was awarded to and completed by Keenoy Preservation (Ruth Keenoy, Susan Sheppard, and Terri L. Foley) of St. Louis, Missouri. The purpose of the survey was to document properties (or groups of properties) that appear potentially eligible for the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). A Phase I survey of the neighborhood's northern half was completed in 2018-2019. The Phase II survey area is situated just east of downtown Joplin (Jasper County), Missouri. The survey area is bounded by Murphy Boulevard (west), E. Broadway Street (north), St. St. Louis Avenue (east) and E. 4th Street (south). This area encompasses 142.73 acres and includes 249 properties. The East Town Phase II survey area is largely residential but also supports commercial buildings, churches, a school building, recreation properties and industrial buildings. East Town's era of heaviest development within the Phase II area occurred during the early twentieth-century, prior to the Great Depression (1930s). Six properties were identified as potentially eligible for the National Register of Historic Places within the Phase II survey area. One property within the Phase II survey area has been previously identified as eligible for the NRHP - Landreth Park - which bounds the western edge of the survey area. The park was documented in the Phase I survey and for this reason, was not re-inventoried (but was photographed) during the course of the project. The survey did not identify any historic districts within the study area." Project funding was provided in part by a Historic Preservation Fund grant to the Missouri State Historic Preservation Office, Department of Natural Resources, administered by the State, Tribal, Local Plans and Grants division, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior (grant number P19AF00084).

East Town/Old Joplin Historic Resources Survey 2020 - Phase II

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