County of house: Callaway County
Location of house: Court St., 3rd house S. of Funeral Home, Fulton
Construction date: 1893-1902
Architect-Builder: M. Fred Bell
Original owner: Charles Fisher
Outbuilding: Garage (NC)
"45. 823 Court Street (C)
Original-Historic owner or Name: Fisher Residence;
Construction Date: c. 1893-1902;
Property type-style: Queen Anne;
Architect-Builder: M. Fred Bell (attributed);
Outbuilding: Garage (NC)
"Located on a large lot, this two-story Queen Anne house has a hipped roof with large projecting cross gables. The cross gables have boxed cornice returns and plain 1/1 sash windows. The large wrap around porch, part of which has a second story balcony, is highly ornamented with dentiled cornice and chamfered posts with decorative brackets for capitals. The house has two large chimneys with corbeled brickwork ornamentation. The windows have decorative flat hoodmolds with wooden key stones. The entrance has multi-paned sidelights and transom. Interior has floral motifs in the Eastlake-design woodwork. The parlor has sliding doors between large hall and dining room and there are transom lights above dining room doors. The house also has a large staircase in the spacious entrance hall. In the late 1990s, a two story, two car garage with hipped roof was constructed on the lot.
Charles L. and Mary C. Fisher had the house built, then sold it on April 5, 1906 to W.M. Adcock; it went for $51 00. William Adcock was a real estate agent and lived here with his wife, Eva. The Presbyterian Church owned the home as a manse from 1947 - 1969." ~ NRHP Nomination Form
"Bellcast gable and bellcast hip,
asbestos shingles
Siding altered; attic fan vents added; one chimney on E side has a new double-arched chimney cap, whose bricks do not match the original part of the chimney very well; corner fire place mantel has been altered-the tiles are original, but egg and dart molding and rest of mantlepiece are not-this work was done by Wilson and Overstreet; downstairs bathroom added; front porch appears to have been partially
enclosed to make a very small entry hall ; back hall, where bathroom is may have been altered somewhat in plan; this may be the case, also, with the back porch.
"Boxed cornice with returns on gable ends; two-story oriel window on S
side; open porch on E side has denticulated cornice, decorative scrollwork brackets which provide a transition between the porch columns and lintels; porch lintel is decorated with punched out holes; stained glass transom window on E side; first-story and on S side and N side, transom and sidelights surround entranceway; two massive Neo-Jacobean type chimneys.
"Interior has floral motifs in Eastlake design of woodwork; parlor has
sliding doors between large hall and dining room; transom lights above
dining room doors; large staircase and very large entrance hall ; back
stairway from kitchen to upstairs.
"According to the 1 egal abstract for this house, Charles L. Fisher
bought the land on which this house is situated on October 30, 1893 for $1800 from N.L. Townsend. Charles L. and Mary C. Fisher undoubtedly had the house built because when they sold it on April 5, 1906 to W.M. Adcock, it went for $5100. (The Fishers may have moved to
Colorado, because the warranty deed was notarized in Oleta County, Colorado.) William Adcock was a real estate agent and lived here with his wife, Eva. In 1928, the legal abstract indicates that there was a default in the loan; later the house was sold at public auction (on January 4, 1936) and F.P. Baker bought it. He sold it to Mary E. Wilson and Helen Overstreet, who bought the house to fix-up and resell as an investment. The following year, on May 30, 1937 they sold it to Miss Myra S. Deaver. She owned it until October 8, 1947, when it was sold to the First Presbyterian Church as a manse. The Presbyterian Church owned it, with Rev. Culverhouse being the last minister to live in the house, until September 9, 1969, when Judith Mitchell acquired the property.
"This house has a lot of potential for restoration. The house may have
been designed by Bell, because the plan for this house is very similar
to a plan for a home designed by Bell included in M. Ohman's thesis
on Bell.
"Overgrown E foundation planting; E side shaded with trees" ~ Fulton Historic Survey Part 2, page 275