Reese Residence - Historic District A - Boonville, MO - NRHP Historic Districts - Contributing Buildings on Waymarking.com

County of building: Cooper County
Location of building: Center St. & 3rd St., NE corner, Boonville
Built: 1887
Architect/Builder: J. N. Gott
Architectural Style: Queen Anne
Original Occupant: J. N. Gott
Private Residence
District Map

"14. Reese Residence, 303 Center Street, 1887. Two and one-half stories in height, the brick residence retains its original Queen Anne plan and affinities, including decorative hoodmolds and a double leaf entrance." ~ NRHP Nomination Form

"Built: 1887
Style/Design: Queen Anne
Main block of truncated hip roofed structure has projecting rectangular bays with gable roofs. Attenuated windows, some paired, have segmentally arched headers of brick accented by stone, painted white, skew backs and keystones and stone lug sills with small corbelled brackets. There are large brackets under the eaves. Roof dormers have barrel vault roofs with windows which have semi-circular headers with returns. Chimney caps are ornately corbelled. The double leaf entrance door is inset into the primary façade (S). Rectangular panels embellish this inset. A 1 bay, 1 story gable roofed porch supported on square brick columns protects the entrance. This concrete stoop extends to the W across the main façade. On the N facade is an original 2 story ell which has brackets and segmentally arched window headers, Attached to this is a 1 story brick addition on the NW corner. These have bracketed eaves, corbelled brick window sills and rowlock headers. Windows are grouped. The entrance on the W has a small canopy supported by brackets above it.

"The structure was built by J. N. Gott as his residence. From 1868 to 1887 Gott resided at 305 Center. Gott, who had been a First Lieut., Regimental Quartermaster, during the Civil War, arrived in Boonville in 1866 and engaged himself manufacturing brick with Constantine Heim. By 1869 he was appointed to the posts of Deputy County Clerk and Receiver in the United States Land Office. In 1881 he was the School Director of the Boonville Public Schools. In 1883 he purchased the business of Brewster and Hilliard Tobacco Manufactures of which he served as bookkeeper, and renamed it John N. Gott, and later John N. Gott & Son. In 1911, one year short of his death, he sold the residence to Charles Oscar Strutz.
  C.O. Strutz arrived in Boonville in that year to develop the Phoenix-American Pipe Factory, the building of which was constructed in 1912. The Factory soon became the larges employer of Boonville workers and gave the city the reputation of being "The Corn Cop Pipe Capital of the World." The residence remained in the Strutz family, both directly and indirectly, until 1970 when it was sold to Walter J. Potter. The next year it was foreclosed upon and purchased by William L. Holmes for speculation. In 1973, Gordon G. Burns, Director of the Boonslick Area Vocational Technical School, purchased the structure as his residence. During this ownership a partial restoration was done. In 1978 the residence became the' property of the present owners. At the present writing there is a contract out for a future sale.

"The residence sits on the NE corner of Center and 3rd Streets, facing S onto Center. It is to the E of Kemper Military School. There is a low concrete reinforcing wall on the W & S property lines, and a frame fence on the N & W." ~ Boonville Historic Survey  PDF pages 1205-1208