607 Fourth St.

    This Vernacular brick building was built in 1840.  It was the site of Adelphai College for Women between 1840 and 1869, under the direction of J. L. Tracy.  Students from Missouri and other states received schooling in arts, sciences, mathematics, music, medical and moral philosophy.  By 1900 the building housed the Dunkin Sanitarium.  By 1910 it was converted into a dwelling, probably apartments.  The two-story main block appears to be brick under the stucco.  By 1900 the two-story gable ell on the northwest which extends to the west and a two-story addition on the south bay of the west were already present.  There is a pent frame porch at the first story which also affords protection to an entrance on the north.  The west indicates several additions, a buff-colored one bay pent addition and a screened, frame, pent porch on the southwest.  On the west of the two-story frame addition is a one-story pent roofed frame addition and a screened in porch.  The yard slopes to the rear to allow for a walk out basement.  On the alley to the west at the northwest corner of the lot is a one-and-one-half story, vertical board and batten barn.  The structure is used as apartments today.  

Funding for this page was provided by Boonville Tourism Commission

This page was constructed by:

Amanda Dodson

This site is listed on the National Register Historic Places.

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