Lona Theatre, Sedalia, MO
**Sedalia Commercial Historic District** - National Register of Historic Places Ref # 01000687, date listed 6/28/2001
Roughly Ohio, Lamine, W. Main, E. Main, and parts of Second-Fifth Sts.
Sedalia, MO (Pettis County)
The Sedalia Commercial Historic District represents the highest concentration of historic buildings which remain in the central business district. The historic district focuses on South Ohio Avenue, spanning six blocks along this major thoroughfare of the central business district. Originally a cow path (according to local legend). South Ohio Avenue became the point of expansion of the earliest business district which had developed on Main Street near the Missouri Pacific line which reached Sedalia in 1861. When the town began booming after the Civil War, brick buildings were replacing frame buildings, due in part to the availability of brick and instigated by fires in frame buildings. Much of this building began occurring along the "cow path" which headed south from Main Street, a path which turned at a point two blocks north of Main Street. The effect of the "cow path" today is an interesting and inviting angle on the main business street, creating an attractive view of historic commercial architecture ranging from the 1870s to the 1930s. (pg 3)
111 West Fifth, New Lona Theater, (Liberty Theater), 1920, Classical Revival. Rectangular plan, two plus stories, limestone foundation with a foliated guilloche watertable, yellow brick, terra cotta trim. The second story end bays have paired 8-light casements with ornate terracotta surrounds over blind balustrades; the frieze above the surround is inscribed "AMVSEMENT" (east) and "EDVCATION" (west) in contrasting blue letters. Above each of these is a pediment with dentils. A full entablature is across the building with a molded architrave, frieze with "LONA THEATER" inscribed in contrasting blue letters and swags over the end bays, and a projecting cornice with dentils. (pg 28) (1)
References (1) NRHP Nomination Form s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/33/8199/...
Lona Theatre, Sedalia, MO
**Sedalia Commercial Historic District** - National Register of Historic Places Ref # 01000687, date listed 6/28/2001
Roughly Ohio, Lamine, W. Main, E. Main, and parts of Second-Fifth Sts.
Sedalia, MO (Pettis County)
The Sedalia Commercial Historic District represents the highest concentration of historic buildings which remain in the central business district. The historic district focuses on South Ohio Avenue, spanning six blocks along this major thoroughfare of the central business district. Originally a cow path (according to local legend). South Ohio Avenue became the point of expansion of the earliest business district which had developed on Main Street near the Missouri Pacific line which reached Sedalia in 1861. When the town began booming after the Civil War, brick buildings were replacing frame buildings, due in part to the availability of brick and instigated by fires in frame buildings. Much of this building began occurring along the "cow path" which headed south from Main Street, a path which turned at a point two blocks north of Main Street. The effect of the "cow path" today is an interesting and inviting angle on the main business street, creating an attractive view of historic commercial architecture ranging from the 1870s to the 1930s. (pg 3)
111 West Fifth, New Lona Theater, (Liberty Theater), 1920, Classical Revival. Rectangular plan, two plus stories, limestone foundation with a foliated guilloche watertable, yellow brick, terra cotta trim. The second story end bays have paired 8-light casements with ornate terracotta surrounds over blind balustrades; the frieze above the surround is inscribed "AMVSEMENT" (east) and "EDVCATION" (west) in contrasting blue letters. Above each of these is a pediment with dentils. A full entablature is across the building with a molded architrave, frieze with "LONA THEATER" inscribed in contrasting blue letters and swags over the end bays, and a projecting cornice with dentils. (pg 28) (1)
References (1) NRHP Nomination Form s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/33/8199/...