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Missouri Art Deco & Streamline Moderne Buildings (page 4)

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Joe Knight Building
Lebanon, MO
The Joe Knight Building was built in 1948 and housed the Knight Drug Store until 1977. The building now houses Mel's on Madison bar and grill. [map]

Clay County Courthouse
Liberty, MO
The Clay County Courthouse was designed by Wight & Wight and built from 1935-1936. [map]

unidentified building [gone]
Macon, MO
This unidentified building featured a Streamline Moderne structure attached to a Quonset hut. Does anyone know the history of this place? The building later housed Huffman Auto Sales. The building was gone by 2022.

Webster County Courthouse
Marshfield, MO
The Webster County Courthouse was designed by Earl Hawkins and built from 1939-1942. [map]

Sullivan County Courthouse
Milan, MO
The Sullivan County Courthouse was designed by Lyle V. DeWitt and built from 1938-1939. [map]

Municipal Auditorium
Moberly, MO		 Newton County Courthouse
Neosho, MO
The Municipal Auditorium was also designed by Abt and built in 1939 as a WPA project. [map]

The Newton County Courthouse was designed by Neal C. Davis and built in 1936. [map]

Renick School
Renick, MO
The Renick School was designed by Ludwig Abt and built in 1943. [map]

Boonslick Regional Library
Sedalia, MO
The Boonslick Regional Library was previously a tool store and later housed an auto parts store. Does anyone know what was here originally and when the storefront and sign were adapted for the library? [map]

Cedar County Courthouse
Stockton, MO
The Cedar County Courthouse was designed by James D. Marshall and M. Dwight Brown. It was built from 1938-1940. [map]

Diamonds Restaurant
Villa Ridge, MO
The original Diamonds Restaurant was built in 1927 in the shape of a baseball diamond. After a fire in 1948, this restaurant building was built. It opened in 1950 and claimed to be the "world's largest roadside restaurant." The dining room was 160 feet long. After being bypassed by the newly-built I-44, the restaurant moved to a new location in 1967 and then closed in the mid-1990s. This building housed the Tri-County Truck Stop until 2006 and has been vacant since then. For more, see this website. [map]

Howell County Courthouse
West Plains, MO
The Howell County Courthouse was designed by Earl Hawkins in 1929 but it was not built until 1936-1937. [map]

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