Central Missouri / Missouri River Corridor
Downtown Columbia has an official historic-district paper trail
Missouri State Parks' Boone County National Register list includes multiple downtown Columbia buildings and districts, including the Downtown Columbia Historic District.
Downtown Columbia is not only restaurants, campus traffic, and courthouse errands. Missouri State Parks’ Boone County National Register list includes the Downtown Columbia Historic District, a boundary increase for that district, North Ninth Street Historic District, Eighth Broadway Historic District, the Missouri Theater, the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad Depot, and other listed properties.
For a buyer, tenant, business owner, or history-minded resident, that list is a useful first stop before making claims about an older building. A National Register listing does not answer every permit or preservation question, but it does show that downtown Columbia has an official historic-property paper trail. Use the state listing to find the exact property or district, then follow local planning, building, and records sources for current work.
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Where this fits: this note belongs to Boone County. See every local note for the county on its page.