Renken Residence - Historic District C - Boonville, MO
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N 38° 58.631 W 092° 44.828
15S E 521902 N 4314274
This residence is listed as #7 on the NRHP description list.
Waymark Code: WM159A4
Location: Missouri, United States
Date Posted: 11/13/2021
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County of house: Cooper County
Location of house: High St., 2nd house E. of 3rd St., N side, Boonville
Built: 1924
Architect: William Walthers
Architectural Style: Bungalow
Original Occupant: Fred Lohse
Current Occupant: Lora Renkin
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"7. Renken Residence, 307 E. High Street, 1924-1926. This one and one-half story Bungalow is brick accented by stucco and half timbering. It has a gable roof and windows are six-over-one or four-over-one." ~ NRHP Nomination Form
"Built: 1924-26
Style/Design: Bungalow
The gable end projects to form the porch roof, has a window and brackets, is stuccoed and has frame half-timbering motifs. This raised porch is supported by square brick columns and an open brickwork balustrade. The entrance, located centrally on the S facade, has 6 panel sidelights. Most windows are 6-over-l or 4-over-l with concrete lug sills and no headers. There is a pent roof dormer to the E, to the W is a gable roofed dormer over projecting rectangular bay window with a corbelled (attached) base. This W facade has an end chimney with small flanking windows. There is an integral porch on the NW corner which is enclosed and a frame pent roof open porch to the N. The basement entrance is also on the N facade.
"Residence constructed for Fred Lohse> who operated the Lohse Grocery
Store in Boonville.
"There is 1 outbuilding which is original to the residence, a hip roofed, asphalt shingle brick garage. It is reached by a concrete drive to the E of the residence, which faces S onto High Street." ~ Boonville Historic Survey PDF pages 1388-1391