Old Stagecoach Stop, Waynesville

The Old Stagecoach Stop, previously known as the Tourist Hotel, Black Hotel, Johnson House, and originally the Waynesville House, is a historic hotel located in Waynesville, Pulaski County, Missouri, on the east side of the town square. It was built by William Walton McDonald in the early 1850s as a one-story, double-pen log building. The dogtrot was soon enclosed, making it a three-room building The building served as a stagecoach stop and post office before the Civil War. The town was served by the South-Western Stage Company until the railroad traversed Pulaski County in 1869. ()