The Salisbury House - Salisbury, MO - Victorian Style Architecture on Waymarking.com

County of house: Chariton County
Location of house: 504 S. Broadway St., Salisbury
Date: circa 1870

"7. 504 South Broadway, circa 1870.
The large two-and-a-half-story house began as a much simpler form and evolved to its present Queen Anne style. The house has an irregular footprint that changed over time, according to local history. A south front gable and northeast octagonal three-story tower dominate the front façade. The tower has a pyramidal roof and metal finial. A squared two-story bay extends beneath the north gable. A chamfered bay projects from the south side. Return cornices on the east and north gables match those on 408 S. Broadway. The house retains several original double-hung and stained glass windows. A circa 1940 columned porch with a brick foundation spans the façade and wraps around the northeast corner of the house. The west side has a one-story extension. The roof has asphalt shingles and two brick chimneys. The foundation is stone. The house is clad in vinyl siding and has decorative shutters. A single garage sits behind the house. The 1910 Sanborn Map shows the house in its current configuration, except for the circa 1940 front porch. It also appears on the 1897 atlas. Renovations likely began in 1885 and continued until around 1890, when a kitchen extension was removed from the north side." ~ NRHP Nomination Form

7. 504 South Broadway, circa 1870 with later additions. The two-room farmhouse Judge Lucius Salisbury built in this location around 1870 also served for a time as the town’s post office and the Stop Awhile Inn for travelers. Local histories refer to this dwelling as the “old Salisbury house.” It expanded during the mid-1880s when Harriet Salisbury began taking out mortgages on the property. Salisbury resident Aubry Fellows, born in 1885, moved into the house as a very young boy and lived there for several decades. The Salisburys moved away in 1892, and the Fellows family rented rooms to students." ~ NRHP Nomination Form

"The Salisbury Square Historic District is a unique cluster of Victorian houses built for local business owners. The architects of the houses are unknown, but the District’s contributing buildings display a grasp of the then-fashionable features of the Queen Anne style. Despite changes to individual buildings, the historic forms and character-defining details are still present on each of the contributing houses within the District. As a collection, they enhance the Queen Anne character of the District and communicate information about the evolution of this architectural style.

"The contributing houses in the Salisbury Square Historic District represent the full range of the Victorian Queen Anne style, early to late, simple to elaborate, and small to large. The Queen Anne style was extremely popular in the Midwest during the late 1800s to about 1910, and was often used in smaller, more-rural communities such as Salisbury up to World War I, consistent with the period of construction within the District. The style came to America from England during the 1880s and quickly spread with the advent of balloon frame construction. The availability of standardized lumber and mail-order trims produced forms that moved beyond the basic cube with protruding bays, multiple gables and towers ornamented with shingles, friezes, spindles and ornamental windows." ~ NRHP Nomination Form