The Squire's House

by Lynn Sprowl

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The Squire's House

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Lynn Sprowl

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Photograph - Photography

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The Squire's House by Lynn Sprowl
Reflecting Southern building traditions and the influence of Georgian architecture, the Squire�s House represents the home of an affluent Southerner whose economic interests were strictly agricultural.
The year 1855 was chosen to interpret because it was the last year before the Kansas-Missouri border fighting began to disrupt the area. By 1856, shootings, lynchings and other violence had polarized pro-slavery and anti-slavery adherents into open conflict.
A typical village in western Missouri looked much like Missouri Town 1855. There would be a school house, blacksmith�s shop, tavern, church and mercantile store. The houses represent the many social classes living in the village. The Colonel�s House, Squire�s House and their various outbuildings represent the upper class. The middle and lower classes are represented by the Tradesman�s House, Blacksmith�s House and the Settler�s House. Social activities in the town would probably have taken place at the non-denominational church or in private homes.
Missouri Town 1855 was never a real village in which real people lived and worked. Instead, it is a reconstruction of what a person may have found at a Missouri crossroads during the mid-19th Century. The buildings in the village were moved to Missouri Town 1855 from other locations in seven different western Missouri counties. These are actual buildings from the mid-19th Century.

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