Hurt Residence - Boonville, MO - Victorian Style Architecture on Waymarking.com

County of house: Cooper County
Location of house: 8th St., 3rd house S of High St., E side, Boonville
Built: 1899
Architect/Builder: W.J. Cochran
Architectural Style: Queen Anne Cottage
Original Occupant: Patrick Darby
Current Occupant: Private Residence
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"53. Hurt Residence, 208 8th Street, 1899. This one and one-half story Queen Anne cottage is brick and has a hip and gable roof." ~ NRHP Nomination Form

"Built: c. 1899
Style/Design: Queen Anne
Gable ends and the hip roof dormer to the Shave fishscale shingles. The foundation is field stone except on the primary facade (W) which is dressed. The entrance has a transom. Windows are attenuated, l-over-l, and have scroll bracket under the sills on the main facade only. Windows have soldier course headers 1st story, double rowlock basement, all segmentally arched. On this W facade there is a raised porch on concrete blocks. It has a flat roof which is supported by wrought iron columns and a balustrade.

"The structure was built about 1899, probably by W.J. Cochran for Patrick Darby (1838-1917), a native of Ireland who came to Missouri in 1868 and purchased a farm near Billingsville where he engaged 1n farming and stockraising. Darby was noted as an intensely patriotic man of high ideals and strong character. During the Civil War he served in the First New York Veteran Cavalry of Volunteers and was confined for 10 months in Andersonville Prison.
  The house was owned subsequently by the Garthoffner family who were related to Darby through a daughter by his first marriage.

"There is a gable roofed frame outbuilding at the E end of the property. The structure sits close to the sidewalk and faces W onto 8th." ~ Boonville Historic Survey  PDF pages 1111-1115