Henderson Hall, Canton, MO
**Henderson Hall** - National Register of Historic Places Ref # 78001666, date listed 10/2/1978
College Hill
Canton, MO (Lewis County)
Henderson Hall, Culver-Stockton College, Canton, Missouri, faces east from its location on a bluff about one mile from the Mississippi River. Of modified T-shape plan, it is a two-story, red brick structure with full basement. Styled in the Neoclassical manner, the building is dominated by a colossal, tetrastyle Ionic portico and crowned by a dome.
Henderson Hall was built in 1903 to replace the earliest college building, "Old Main," which had burned on March 23rd of the same year. The earlier building, which is pictured in a photograph dating ca. 1888, was an imposing structure designed in the Classical Revival tradition. A three-story, brick structure, it was accented with a colossal, hexastyle portico in the Corinthian order and a central dome.
Although Henderson Hall is by no means an imitation of the first, it is evident that it was designed with the earlier building well in mind. It presents a similarly imposing facade, with a tetrastyle Ionic portico and a central dome. Whereas the earlier building was constructed in the Classical Revival style still popular in Missouri in the 1850's, Henderson Hall well illustrates the Neo-Classical Revival which was current at the beginning of the twentieth century. (1)
References (1) NRHP Nomination Form s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/31/8196/...
Henderson Hall, Canton, MO
**Henderson Hall** - National Register of Historic Places Ref # 78001666, date listed 10/2/1978
College Hill
Canton, MO (Lewis County)
Henderson Hall, Culver-Stockton College, Canton, Missouri, faces east from its location on a bluff about one mile from the Mississippi River. Of modified T-shape plan, it is a two-story, red brick structure with full basement. Styled in the Neoclassical manner, the building is dominated by a colossal, tetrastyle Ionic portico and crowned by a dome.
Henderson Hall was built in 1903 to replace the earliest college building, "Old Main," which had burned on March 23rd of the same year. The earlier building, which is pictured in a photograph dating ca. 1888, was an imposing structure designed in the Classical Revival tradition. A three-story, brick structure, it was accented with a colossal, hexastyle portico in the Corinthian order and a central dome.
Although Henderson Hall is by no means an imitation of the first, it is evident that it was designed with the earlier building well in mind. It presents a similarly imposing facade, with a tetrastyle Ionic portico and a central dome. Whereas the earlier building was constructed in the Classical Revival style still popular in Missouri in the 1850's, Henderson Hall well illustrates the Neo-Classical Revival which was current at the beginning of the twentieth century. (1)
References (1) NRHP Nomination Form s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/31/8196/...