Johnston Field House and Pool Annex - Historic District A - Boonville, MO - NRHP Historic Districts - Contributing Buildings on Waymarking.com

County of building: Cooper County
Location of building: 3rd St. & Spruce St., NW corner, Boonville
Built: 1923-1925
Architect/Builder: T.A. Johnson
Architectural Style: Neo-Classical
Original Occupant: Field House and Pool
Current Occupant: YMCA
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"2. Johnston Field House and Pool Annex, Kemper Military School and College Campus, 1923-1925. This large two-story brick structure has a one-story ell to the south and an imposing Nee-Classical primary facade." ~ NRHP Nomination Form

"Built: 1923-1925
Style/Design: Neo-Classical
This large 2 story rectangular building has 1 story ell to the SW which is the pool annex, built in 1925. The primary facade faces E and is embellished by a central projecting raised portico with 6 stone, 2 story ionic columns which have an egg and dart molding in their capitals and support a heavy entablature with a dentil course. At the wall surface are 6 stone pilasters. Above the entablature is a stone balustrade with squat corner columns. The 3 central bays protected by this portico include attenuated windows with a stone sill course at the 2nd story, and double doors & double transoms on the 1st story. Secondary framing members divide most doors, transoms, and windows into smaller panes surrounding a larger central pane. Flanking this portico on the 2nd story is a grouped window bay which includes 3 windows with a header course and lug sills. Above the header course are 3 semi-circular arches bricked in, but having ornate keystones. Complementing windows on the 1st story are rectangular with no headers, but stone lug sills.
  The N facade includes 2 rectangular projecting bays 1 at each end and extending through the basement and the 2 stories above. Each has a crenilated parapet wall with concrete copings. Decorative brickwork on this parapet wall forms a diamond pattern with small stone diamonds at each point. The wall surface is embellished with stone header and sill courses, brick pilasters with a decorative stone molding and brick buttresses which extend 3/4 up the the pilasters and have stone caps, and a corbelled brick cornice. Fenestration includes rectangular windows divided into small panes and large windows topped by semi-circular arched windows at the 2nd story level. Located centrally is a 3 bay polygonal bay which begins at the exposed basement level and extends through the 1st story. It repeats the decorative motives of the end bays, and contains the entrance into the basement level, which is a set of double doors with a large semi-circular transom which repeats the window motifs. A flat roof canopy supported by brackets and chains protects this entrance. At the basement level on the W bay, windows are bricked in and there is a double door with transom.
  The S facade repeats the N facade with 2 exceptions: there is no central entrance or polygonal bay and the pool annex extends from the SW corner of the main structure. This annex is 1 story and repeats the architectural motifs of the field house on a smaller scale: crenilated parapets, arched windows, pilasters and buttresses, and stone belt courses. This annex extends to the S and has its entrance at the NE corner where it joins the main building. It, too, repeats the portico motif with the use of engaged ionic columns with an entablature surrounding double doors which have a transom and sidelights.
  On the W facade of this structure, the basement is fully exposed. The pool annex extends slightly beyond the wall surface. Architectural motifs are repeated, but simplified: the stone belt course continues but becomes a brick soldier course with a brick stretcher course projecting above. The central section has a crenilated gabled parapet wall with copings and an ornatly corbelled cornice below. Windows have lug sills but no headers except those at the arched windows. There is a 1 story rectangular projecting bay located centrally at the basement level which has an entrance to the S.
  Interior spaces include a large indoor track area and shooting range in the basement level. The main floor is divided into 2 areas: a large open gym floor 2 stories in height and a smaller section at the E end which has 1 story offices, stairways, and bleachers located at the 2nd story.

"See school history from Kemper Administration Complex data sheet.[pages 207-220] It was built during Col. T.A. Johnston's administration, he was known as "the builder of school".

"Thi.s structure faces E onto 3rd street and sits at the corner of 3rd and Spruce streets. Porter street runs NS along the pool annex then turns E at a right angle and runs along the field house to Join 3rd street. The field house forms the southeastern boundary of the Kemper campus and its district.
  An asphalt drive and parking area are immediately to the W of the structure." ~ Boonville Historic Survey  PDF pages 238-243