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Together, the houses present a ninety foot frontage, contain nine original rooms and have twenty-seven doors. The house faces south from the base of the river hills that rise from the
Missouri River bottoms. A spacious yard contains several sizeable trees including the large cedars, for which the house was named. A hewn stone retaining wall delimits the edge of the front yard; beyond is a Granite marker noting the route of the Santa Fe trail placed by the
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Nicholas Amick house is of the hall and parlor type, the hall being a twenty foot square room, the parlor an approximately twelve by twenty room. These rooms are partitioned by a load bearing brick wall. The "old kitchen 1" that makes up the rear ell is thirteen by seventeen feet.
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Cedar Grove is actually two separate houses almost conjoined together--(about 2 inches separates them) a small one story
Federal style house, ca. 1825, and a later and much larger "Greek Revival" house built in 1855. Both are constructed of brick, rest on sandstone foundations, and have gable roofs.
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A barn is located some 120 meters east of the
Kinqsbury residence. This barn is of a transverse crib variety with shed additions that encircle the building on the north, west and south sides with yet another lean-to on the downhill south side. Heavy hand hewn beams approximately 12" square are
366:"Cedar Grove" (Amick-Kingsbury House). The smaller one-story Federal section dating from about 1825 is to the left; the two-story Greek Revivial section dating to 1856 is to the right. Later additions can be seen behind the Federal section. The house is still used as a residence.
274:. County Route Z now passes in front of the house and the nearest town of consequence is New Franklin, two miles to the east. Associated with the property are a dilapidated "slave" house, several dilapidated outbuildings and a significant barn built with a hewn, timber frame.
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mortised together to support this stout structure and all rafters consist of poles with the bark stripped off. Although the study of
Missouri barns is still in its infancy, this barn must be an old one, at least the contemporary of the Kingsbury if not the Amick House.
354:"Cedar Grove" (Amick-Kingsbury House). The 1909 Daughters of the American Revolution/State of Missouri Santa Fe Trail Monument is shown in the foreground. The Santa Fe Trail started in Franklin, just a few miles to the east, and ran directly in front of the house.
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The one story west section of Cedar Grove is the original
Federalist house. It is constructed of brick laid in a Flemish bond pattern on the primary facade, common bond on the remaining facades, and rests on a sandstone foundation. . . .
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342:"Cedar Grove" (Amick-Kingsbury House), 1825 & 1856, on the Santa Fe Trail in Howard County, Missouri, near Franklin
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375:References
140:92°47′57″W
962:St. Clair
767:Lafayette
747:Jefferson
672:Gasconade
597:Christian
532:Bollinger
485:by county
257:in 1982.
137:39°0′35″N
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261:Details
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