Merritt Violette House

Merritt Violette House
Location Off MO 107, Florida, Missouri
Coordinates 39°29′37″N 91°47′6″W / 39.49361°N 91.78500°W / 39.49361; -91.78500Coordinates: 39°29′37″N 91°47′6″W / 39.49361°N 91.78500°W / 39.49361; -91.78500
Area less than one acre
Built 1902 (1902)
Architect Violette, Mrs M.A.; Multiple
Architectural style Queen Anne
NRHP reference # 83001031[1]
Added to NRHP September 8, 1983

Merritt Violette House, also known as Merritt "Dad" Violette House, is a historic home located at Florida, Monroe County, Missouri. It was built in 1902-1903, and is a one-story, eclectic vernacular Queen Anne style frame dwelling with attic. It is sheathed in clapboard and fishscale shingles and has a complex hipped and gable roof. The house has a cross in square plan. It was the home of Merritt Violette, who saved Mark Twain's birthplace for the nation and instigated the Mark Twain State Park, and who built two camps for the Camp Fire Girls.[2]:2-3

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. Karen Platz Hunt, Esley Hamilton, and James M. Denny (March 1983). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Merritt Violette House" (PDF). Missouri Department of Natural Resources. Retrieved 2017-01-01. (includes 6 photographs from 1980)


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