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Built
1905-1906 and long the centerpiece of the fairgrounds, the 180'
x 235' three story coliseum restates and amplifies several architectural
motifs found in the brick animal barns nearby. All four sides
of the brick, wood and steel building are arcaded, while the two-tiered
portico and all four corners contain two-story archways. Inside
an angular oval arena is ringed with bench seats. The arena floor
is earthen. Numerous entertainers and politicians have performed
and spoken here, but apart from its architecture, the Coliseum
is mainly significant for having the primary stock and horse-judging
arena at the Missouri State Fairgrounds for more than 80 years.
Built
in 1910, the Women’s Building is a rectangular, 2 1/2 story
gray brick building constructed in the Georgian Revival style.
The five bay main facade of the approximately 60' x 72' building
is dominated by a full-height pedimented portico supported by
two smooth wooden Doric columns. Smaller wooden columns and two
square brick rusticated columns support a full-width two-story
porch with a classical balustrade on both levels. The primary
entry is double leaf with sidelights and transom, while the entrance
onto the deck lacks a transom but is otherwise similar. The roofing
is asphalt shingles. During 1965 extensive renovations were done
which included the removal of a one-story rear wing, as well as
the addition of a wheel chair ramp. The building has a full basement,
which houses the Missouri State Fair Heritage Exhibit, that was
dedicated in August of 2002 during the 100th anniversary of the
fair.
Built
in 1926-27, the Administration Building is a rectangular two-story
brick building with a symmetrical facade highlighted by a projecting
temple front of rusticated brick piers and smooth stone Tuscan
columns. A low brick parapet extends around the front and both
sides of the approximately 95' x 56' building. In the rear (west)
facade, square brick piers support a one-story portico. In addition
to offices, the Administration Building contains bedrooms, which
were installed for members of the fair board of directors, and
a cafeteria. In 1964 the building was remodeled (primarily inside)
to bring plumbing and electrical circuits to modern standards.
Shaped
parapets with copings above four entrances, “bell towers”
on the corners and extensive arch work provide a strong Missionesque
flavor for this exposition hall which was built in 1903. The approximately
80' x 160' building is one of three red brick and steel exposition
halls constructed for the 1903 fair. The round-arched entrances
(one per side) and corner towers are projecting, with round compound
arches. The roof is hipped with lower cross gables and there are
four hipped-roof dormers. Sandstone is used for trim and lugsills,
but the water table/foundation is limestone. The four corners
contain rest rooms, storage and office space. A concrete ramp
was added on the north, and metal doors replaced the wooden ones
that were originally installed. Originally the Agricultural Building,
it had been redesigned as the Education Building by the 1920s.
Several years ago it became the Commercial Building.
Built
in 1943 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works of Eddystone, Pennsylvania,
the engine weighs 240 tons and its tender 191 tons. The tenders
capacity is 18,000 gallons of water and 24 tons of coal. It was
moved from Fort Scott Kansas to Sedalia by the MKT Railroad, and
presented to the fairgrounds August 20, 1956, by the Frisco Railroad.
During
late 1947 and early 1948 the American people sent food and other
items to France on “Friendship Trains.” The French responded
with a 49-car train loaded with gifts for each of the 48 states
and one for the District of Columbia and Hawaii. The thank you
boxcars were vintage late 19th century “40 and 8s” which
stands for 40 men and 8 horses. Some of the contents of the boxcar
are on display with the Pettis County Historical Society. The
boxcar was refurbished in circa 2000.
The
FFA building is a 55' x 122' brick and steel exposition hall,
one of the three oldest on the fairgrounds. Each symmetrical facade
contains a central double-leaf entrance within a projecting bay.
Entry and window openings have round brick work arches. Decorative
insets of terra cotta are beneath the pediments. Round-arched
windows above entrances contain tracery. The water table is gray
sandstone. The paneled doors are thought to be original. The original
tin roof has since been replaced with asphalt shingles. Constructed
in 1903 as the Poultry Building, it was redesignated as the Dairy
Building two years later when a new larger Poultry Building was
erected. During the 1920s it became the University Building. The
cost ($10,672) was comparable to that of the large brick horse
and cattle barns constructed over the next few years.
The
Swine Pavilion is an arcaded, steel-frame brick building with
a flat, three-tiered roof and Missionesque parapets above projecting
entrance ways. Square towers with pyramidal roofs are in the northeast
and southeast corners of the 276' x 284' building. Atop the uppermost
flat level is a cross-hipped structure designed for additional
ventilation. The 51st General Assembly appropriated $125,000 for
a 276' x 384' building, but completion of the west side was deferred
when the appropriation proved inadequate. The west portion, designed
to be about as elaborate as the east, was never completed. Inside
the brick building, the steel pens appear to be those from the
original installation in 1922.
In
1966, the State Fair Community College District was established.
On a 15 acre tract of land the college began construction. During
a July windstorm the partially constructed walls blew down and
they raced to continue so that the doors would open for the fall
term, their efforts paid off and 436 students walked through the
doors of a prefabricated building consisting of six light-green
modular units connected by a central hallway, on the first day
of class September 16th 1968. Due to the temporary nature of the
structure, the structure was dubbed “Plywood U” with
the intentions of only using the original building no longer than
10 years. The following decade saw six additional structures added
including the Charles E. Yeater Learning Center, Vocational-Technical
Center, and the Hopkins Student Services Building, completed in
1988, which replaced the temporary buildings on the campus. By
2002 additional structures included The Daum Museum of Contemporary
Art, Stauffacher Center for the Fine Arts, with a theater, classrooms,
and the prestigious Goddard Gallery. The Daum Museum of Contemporary
Art contains nine galleries devoted to the exhibition of art from
the last 30 years. The permanent collection is comprised of abstract
paintings, drawings, and prints, works in clay and sculpture created
by many of America’s most celebrated artists. The landscape
around the building will be host to future public art projects.
The Scott Joplin Archives - housed in the Library of the Yeater
Building, contains the bar from the Maple Leaf Club, a stain glass
window from the Woods Opera House, along with letters, music,
and other Joplin memorabilia.
Katy
Trail State Park (western trailhead) 
The
overpass was built in 1969 when South Highway 65 was widened.
According to the Union Pacific Railroad it is composed of three
plate girders arranged in a through girder, configuration of 32
feet each. Visual evidence, however, indicates that the middle
girder is longer than the two outside spans.
In
1898 the Katy Railroad relocated the shops one mile southwest
to a 60 acre tract in southwest Sedalia. Businessmen associated
with the Sedalia Board of Trade had donated thirty-eight acres
of this land to the railroad in 1897. These men also raised $100,000
to construct four brick shop buildings of up to an acre in size.
The largest was served by 12 tracks and accommodated 24 cars at
a time. There were half-dozen smaller buildings and an 80' by
725' “transfer table.” The shops, north across the tracks
from the Katy’s stockyard, south of 20th St., and east of
Limit, were served by approximately fourteen spurs off the main
line. Peak employment of 898 was reached in World War I, after
which employment erratically declined. The ground between the
tracks and 20th Street remains vacant, but the old stockyard property
south of the tracks and north of Clinton Road has been commercially
developed. The site of the historic Barrett Hotel between Clinton
Road and Grand Avenue is now a city park, named in the honor of
the Katy Railroad.
Built
in 1924, Smith-Cotton High School has been a timeless gift from
Sedalia’s founding family. Sarah Smith-Cotton and Martha
Smith, daughters of Sedalia’s founder George R. Smith, donated
the tract of land, which housed the family home for the school.
Designed by popular Sedalia architect T.W. Bast, Smith-Cotton
regally stands on one of the highest points (920 feet) in mid-Missouri
and has seen multiple generations pass through the doors.
This
neon-lit landmark opened it’s doors in 1947. The horseshoe-shaped
counter with a black linoleum running board greets the customer
with a bit of nostalgia. A top-hatted cane-carrying peanut painted
on the curved front glass entices customers to “Try our delicious
guberburgers.” This restaurants main attraction is a hamburger
spread with melted peanut butter. The restaurant is known to go
through 5 pounds of smooth peanut butter in a day.
200
W. Broadway - Heard Memorial Club House 
115
W. Broadway - Eddies Drive Inn 
The
Sedalia Armory is one of the few remaining WPA projects in the
city, and a good example of Art-Moderne style structures, emphasizing
simplified streamlined form, smoothed-faced concrete exterior
walls, rounded corners and horizontal emphasis. Work began on
the Armory in December of 1940 and was completed in March of 1943.
Located on a six-acre lot this concrete building consists of a
two-story office wing, with and 85 x 100 foot barrel roof drill
hall. Two incised artillery pieces flank each side of the main
entry way, which faces south onto Ninth Street. Sold to a private
owner in the spring of 2004, the Armory now has a new location
just west of the Mathewson Exhibition Center on the Missouri State
Fairgrounds. 