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Garfield Historic District (Poplar Bluff, Missouri)

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Historic district in Missouri, United States

United States historic place
Garfield Historic District
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
Gatlin Grocery Store - Frank and Lutie Jordan House, in 2022
Garfield Historic District (Poplar Bluff, Missouri) is located in MissouriGarfield Historic District (Poplar Bluff, Missouri)Show map of MissouriGarfield Historic District (Poplar Bluff, Missouri) is located in the United StatesGarfield Historic District (Poplar Bluff, Missouri)Show map of the United States
Location914-916, 915, 921 Garfield St., Poplar Bluff, Missouri
Coordinates36°45′53″N 90°23′50″W / 36.76486°N 90.39718°W / 36.76486; -90.39718
Area1.3 acres (0.53 ha)
Built byJ. J. Miller; A. W. Greer
ArchitectBonsack and Pearce, Inc
Architectural styleColonial Revival (school)
NRHP reference No.100001686
Added to NRHPOctober 2, 2017

The Garfield Historic District in Poplar Bluff, Missouri is a historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017. It encompasses three contributing buildings (a school, a church, and a grocery store/house) and one contributing object (a sign) in a predominantly residential section of Poplar Bluff.

Wheatley Public School was a segregated school for Negro children during the Jim Crow era, which was built in 1928 in Colonial Revival style. It was previously separately listed on the National Register, in 1998. The school building is now a museum, the Wheatley School Museum. As of 2017 the museum could be visited upon appointment made at the Rattler's Grocery, operated by Rex Rattler Sr.

The District also includes the Gatlin Grocery Store - Frank and Lutie Jordan House, built in 1908, and Pleasant Hill Baptist Church at 915 Garfield St. The church was completed in 1919. The church's sign, from 1963, is a contributing object.

The district "is in a section of Poplar Bluff that represents the area where African Americans settled and formed a community within Poplar Bluff." It was deemed significant as an "intact cohesive collection" of early twentieth-century commercial, educational and religious buildings "that interrelate to express a history of development, commerce, education, and social history spanning the district’s period of significance 1908 - 1968."

The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2017.

References

  1. ^ "National Register of Historic Places Weekly Lists 2017" (PDF). National Park Service. Retrieved June 13, 2022.
  2. Sherae Honeycutt (November 30, 2017). "African-American neighborhood in Poplar Bluff added to national historic register". KFVS-12.
  3. ^ Terri L. Foley (January 27, 2017). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Registration: Garfield Historic District" (PDF). Missouri Department of Natural Resources. Retrieved June 13, 2022. Includes 15 photos from 2017.

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