506 - 510 South Ohio Avenue - Cassidy Building

This 1890s three-story building housed such businesses as the Home Tea and Coffee Co. and a grocery store at 510. In the 1930s the third story was removed. On the south outside wall, don’t miss the painted advertisement for “Sen Sen, ‘A Dainty Toilet Necessity,’” a product sold when the building housed the Home Tea and Coffee Co.

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512 - 514 South Ohio Avenue

The YMCA Building was constructed in 1891 in the Romanesque Revival style. The building features a unique doorway and ornate second floor facade.

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505 South Ohio Avenue

Art Impressions Gallery features regional artists with exceptional works ranging from traditional to contemporary. Workshops and other art happenings are scheduled.

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515 - 519 South Ohio Avenue

In the late 1800s it was very common in small Midwestern towns for the furniture dealer to also be the undertaker, due to the fact that the cabinet maker was often the casket maker. What is unusual today, however is for these businesses to still be together, functioning as one corporation, still under the original family’s ownership. The founding brothers John and George McLaughlin began their businesses on Second Street but moved to these buildings designed and built to their specifications in 1890.

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Sixth and Osage Avenue - Community Church

The round stone arches are the primary feature of Romanesque Revival buildings and this church, dedicated in the 1880s, is no exception. The bell tower and stained glass windows add to its beauty. The building is now home to the Slavic Christian Church of Sedalia. Their first services were held in April 2004, and they were in Russian. The churches congregation will continue to refurbish the building.

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Fourth and Osage Avenue

Constructed in 1888, the First United Methodist Church is the second oldest church in Sedalia. The Romanesque Revival style was popular in church construction prior to the turn of the century. The asymmetrical towers give a medieval air to this structure and make it one of Sedalia’s more interesting attractions.

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112 - 114 West Fourth Street - Porter-Montgomery Building

This building was erected in 1907 and although the facade is sometimes known as Egyptian Revival, many of the other details above the doors and windows show a strong Greek influence. The interior of the building has been completely restored.

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200 S. Osage Avenue - Municipal Building Murals

Sedalia was granted a city charter in 1864 and the present Municipal Building was completed and its cornerstone placed in 1973. This building replaced the former City Hall, which was built in 1877. The structure houses city offices, municipal courtroom/city council chambers and police station. The Sedalia Murals, which depict the city’s growth and cultural history, executed by muralist Eric Bransby were completed in 1977 and grace the outside walls of the Council Chambers.

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118 S. Osage Avenue

This structure with Italiante windows was built in 1880 by J. M. Offield, the father of film star Jack Oakie. Oakie is probably best known as Clark Gable’s sidekick in “Call of the Wild.”

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115-119 West Main Street - Anheuser-Busch Bottling Works, circa 1883 and 1892

Anheuser-Busch Bottling Works, circa 1883 and 1892. The building located on the southeast corner (119) was completed in 1880 and was used as a saloon with upstairs sleeping rooms until the 1930s. The first floor features its original pressed metal ceiling. The arched window on the slanted corner would have been the original doorway. The next section of the building (117) has a rare semi-hexagonal metal oriel (window) which protrudes over the sidewalk.

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217 West Main Street

Built in 1880, the Messerly Building has some very unique window treatments. The building housed on its ground floor the more respectable enterprises of grocery store, carriage shop, patent medicine store, and restaurant. The second floor housed a notorious brothel and has a significant variety and volume of graffiti scrawled on its walls by customers.

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Third and Kentucky Avenue - Carnegie Library

This impressive terra cotta and Carthage stone building is the Sedalia Public Library. It is Missouri’s first library west of the Mississippi to be built on a grant from the Andrew Carnegie Foundation. This Renaissance Revival building features a classical entry with its stately columns clearly resembling a Roman temple. The interior of this classic style structure is resplendent with marble and glass floors, open fireplaces and oak woodwork. The library was dedicated in 1901.

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Third & Moniteau Avenue - Sacred Heart Church

The primarily German immigrant congregation, now known as Sacred Heart Catholic Church, was organized in 1892. The Gothic style structure, one of Sedalia’s most picturesque buildings, was completed in 1893 and features a ceiling-high, hand-carved walnut altar and two side altars.

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Third and Park Avenue - Liberty Park

In 1890 the city purchased a 50 acre site at this location from Frank and Joseph Sicher. The site consisted of a five-acre lake, a racetrack, grandstand, fairground and a hotel with a dining room, which could accommodate 500 diners. The site was known as Sicher Park and renamed Liberty Park in 1900. 32 acres were added and today, the centerpiece of the city’s parks and recreation department, boasts a stocked lagoon, a rose garden, a swimming pool, tennis and basketball courts, convention center and a baseball stadium that was constructed under a Works Progress Administration (WPA) program. With its several shelter houses and tree-shaded picnic areas, Liberty Park provides the community with a beauty spot in which to enjoy their leisure and recreational pursuits.

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16th and State Fair Boulevard - Missouri State Fairgrounds Historic District

Over the years, the fairgrounds have been the scenes of many of Sedalia’s most memorable moments. Including an airplane exhibition in 1909, by brothers, Orville and Wilbur Wright.

The Missouri State Fairgrounds Historic District contains a significant collection of early 20th century fairgrounds buildings and properties, which were added as Missouri's first and only permanent state fairground expanded and evolved during its first 40 years, 1901-1941.Ê Four of the original frame buildings constructed on the grounds burned in 1904 and between 1903 and 1906 several brick buildings, still in service, were built for use as exhibition centers. The architectural styles range from eclectic variations of Romanesque Revival and other classical forms to Art Deco/Art Moderne, while the brick exposition buildings and animal barns are clearly linked by common elements of design and other details of materials, workmanship, setting, size, association and proximity. Blueprints and historic photographs confirm that all of the most significant resources are relatively unaltered to moderately altered.

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Main Gate

Built in 1939 this Art Deco/Art Moderne rendering in steel and concrete consist of three individual ticket booths spanned by steel arch work containing the Missouri State Seal and the words, MISSOURI STATE FAIR, in ribbon steel. The gateway is at the original north entrance, through which more than a billion people have entered the fairgrounds since the first fair in 1901. The booths are no longer used and the major entry to the fairgrounds is now located off of Limit Ave. (Highway 65).

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