Parking Lot Main & Elm - Washington, MO
Posted by: 
YoSam.
N 38° 33.671 W 091° 00.800
15S E 673094 N 4269953
The brick columns which hold up the fancy fence are all dedicated bricks.
Waymark Code: WMZCZP
Location: Missouri, United States
Date Posted: 10/22/2018
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County of bricks: Franklin COunty
Location of bricks: W. Main St. & Elm St., parking lot, Washington
This has been a parking lot for some time. In 2008, when the building next door (west) was re-modeled, and became the Washington Farmers' Market, this parking lot was upgraded.
It is used as a booth site on the Saturdays the Farmers' Market is active...otherwise it is a free parking facility.
The silhouette steamboat and fence and mural and brick columns were added at that time.
There are also 12 non-contributing parking lots (structures) that were not addressed by the original 1989
survey and nomination. The original map does however illustrate unmarked, vacant
spots that were revisited and evaluated as a component of the current revision. Parking lots were
evaluated in accordance with “Parking Lots in Historic Districts: A National Register White Paper” at the
recommendation of the Missouri SHPO.
"The lots were evaluated as structures if they had ten or more
parking spaces or otherwise represented “land that exhibits a substantial amount of construction in
paving or land that is put to use”. The non-contributing parking/paved lots identified by the current
revision are as follows:
a. Elm Street Lot [between W. Front and W. Main Street]
b. Corner Lot of Elm and W. Main Street
c. Lot bounded by Elm, W. Front, and Oak Street ... " ~ NRHP Nomination Form