Buildings of Missouri
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Adler and Sullivan
agriculture
Art Deco
Arts and Crafts
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Beaux-Arts
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classicism
Colonial Revival
Daniel Boone
Eames and Young
Emil Frei
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Gateway Arch
George Kessler
Gothic Revival
Greek Revival
guide
Hareand Hare
Harry Truman
Harvey Ellis
high-style
I-house
Italianate
Jerome B. Legg
Jesse James
Kansas City
Kauffman Center
Keene and Simpson
Laura Ingalls Wilder
log buildings
Louis A. Simon
Louisiana Purchase Exposition
Mackey Mitchell
Mark Twain
Masonic temples
Mississippi River
mixed-use developments
modernism
Mormonism
Native Americans
neoclassicism
Palladianism
petroglyph
Postmoderm
Queen Anne style
Richardsonian Romanesque
Scott Joplin
Second Empire
St. Louis
Theodore C. Link
vernacular
vernacular architecture
Wainwright Building
Walt Disney
Product details
- ISBN 9780813949598
- Dimensions: 127 x 246mm
- Publication Date: 12 Mar 2025
- Publisher: University of Virginia Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Generously illustrated, definitive guide to the built world of Missouri
A nineteenth-century traveler once described Missouri as “neither east nor west nor north nor south.” It is a place of topographical transitions, delineated on the east by the Mississippi River and bisected by the Missouri River, encompassing a landscape of plains, bottomland, forests, and mountains, and home to iconic figures of American history—Laura Ingalls Wilder, Mark Twain, Scott Joplin, Jesse James, and Harry Truman, among them—as well as explorers, settlers, enslaved persons, immigrants, migrant workers, and, to this day, people starting new lives. Missouri has an equally rich mix of architectural styles and influences. The “Show Me State” volume in the award-winning Buildings of the United States series includes substantive guides to the major urban centers of St. Louis and Kansas City, surveys everything from Native American villages and petroglyphs to farms and small-town streetscapes, and highlights such landmarks of modern design as Adler and Sullivan’s Wainwright Building, Eero Saarinen’s iconic Gateway Arch, and Moshe Safdie’s Kauffman Center.
A nineteenth-century traveler once described Missouri as “neither east nor west nor north nor south.” It is a place of topographical transitions, delineated on the east by the Mississippi River and bisected by the Missouri River, encompassing a landscape of plains, bottomland, forests, and mountains, and home to iconic figures of American history—Laura Ingalls Wilder, Mark Twain, Scott Joplin, Jesse James, and Harry Truman, among them—as well as explorers, settlers, enslaved persons, immigrants, migrant workers, and, to this day, people starting new lives. Missouri has an equally rich mix of architectural styles and influences. The “Show Me State” volume in the award-winning Buildings of the United States series includes substantive guides to the major urban centers of St. Louis and Kansas City, surveys everything from Native American villages and petroglyphs to farms and small-town streetscapes, and highlights such landmarks of modern design as Adler and Sullivan’s Wainwright Building, Eero Saarinen’s iconic Gateway Arch, and Moshe Safdie’s Kauffman Center.
Osmund Overby was Professor Emeritus of Art History and Archaeology at the University of Missouri–Columbia and the author of William Adair Bernoudy, Architect: Bringing the Legacy of Frank Lloyd Wright to St. Louis.
Carol Grove is Adjunct Assistant Professor of American Art at the University of Missouri–Columbia and the coauthor of Hare & Hare: Landscape Architects and City Planners.
Cole Woodcox, formerly Professor of English at Truman State University, is Executive Director of the Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges (COPLAC).
Carol Grove is Adjunct Assistant Professor of American Art at the University of Missouri–Columbia and the coauthor of Hare & Hare: Landscape Architects and City Planners.
Cole Woodcox, formerly Professor of English at Truman State University, is Executive Director of the Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges (COPLAC).
