The Niedermeyer Apartment building is one of Columbia’s oldest buildings. But did you know you can literally sleep where history was made? Linda Libert operates Rooms on Cherry in the Niedermeyer and you can stay in a bed and breakfast there. Read all about it in this article in COMO Magazine.
African-American Heritage Trail leader speaking at Jan. 31, 2023 meeting
Barbra A.B. Horrell, co-director of the African American Heritage Trail organization, will be the speaker at the 7 p.m. Jan. 31, 2023 meeting of CoMo Preservation, a group dedicated to preserving historic places and spaces. The meeting will be held in the Friends Room of the Columbia Public Library. All meetings of CoMo Preservation are…
Kicking off 2023 with historic news flashes
CoMo Preservation, a new historic preservation nonprofit founded in May of 2022 is kicking off a new project. Starting on Jan. 1, 2023, CoMo Preservation will begin CoMo 365, a daily news flash about an event that happened on that day in history in Columbia, Missouri. You can follow along via CoMo Preservation’s new website…
National speaker at Dec. 21 CoMo Preservation meeting
CoMo Preservation’s meeting at 7 p.m. on Dec. 21 in the Columbia Public Library will feature Bob Yapp speaking to via Zoom. Yapp has been involved in historic preservation and rehabbing for decades and had his own PBS program, About Your House on PBS. In the four years after it started in 1996, the program…
Dec. 21: Bob Yapp, nationally known historic preservationist, to speak
Free event on Dec. 21 to feature nationally known historic preservationist
CoMo Preservation meeting 7 p.m. Nov 29
Meeting of CoMo Preservation 7 p.m. Nov. 29 in the Columbia Public Library.
KOPN History Minute kicks off
KOPN 89.5 community radio begins airing History Minute
MU official to speak Oct. 26 at Historic Preservation meeting
MU Director of Campus Facilities Space Planning & Management Gerald Morgan will speak at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 26 in a meeting of the Historic Preservation Alliance of Columbia in the Friends Room of the Columbia Public Library. Morgan will explain the complex decision-making process that goes into deciding which MU buildings to save and…
Speaker at Sept. 27 Historic Preservation Alliance of Columbia meeting
A preservationist from Jefferson City will speak at the 7:30 p.m. Sept. 27 meeting of the Historic Preservation Alliance of Columbia. The meeting is open to the public.
You can help save historic buildings
Meeting of Historic Preservation Alliance of Columbia at 7 p.m. on Aug. 30 to stop demolition of buildings.