Lansdown-Higgins House, Jefferson City

#49 among attractions in Jefferson City

Greek Revival architecture

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Lansdown-Higgins House, also known as the Riggins House, Kerl House, and Sommerer House, is a historic home located near Jefferson City, Cole County, Missouri. The original section was built about 1830, and was a 1+1⁄2-story dogtrot house of hewn log construction. The house achieved its present form about 1854, and is a two-story, three bay, Greek Revival style frame I-house with a central passage plan. It features an imposing two-story pedimented portico supported by square Doric order columns and massive chimneys of gray limestone. ()

Built: 1830 (194 years ago)Coordinates: 38°30'23"N, 92°12'19"W

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Lansdown-Higgins House – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Capital Mall, Jefferson City National Cemetery, Lincoln University, Jefferson City Community Center.

6.1 miNW
Shopping, Shopping centre
Capital Mall, Jefferson City
155 min walk • Capital Mall is a shopping mall located in Jefferson City, Missouri, United States that opened in 1978. Its anchors are JCPenney and Dillard's. Sears closed in March 2017.
4.8 miNE
Cemetery
Jefferson City National Cemetery, Jefferson City
122 min walk • Jefferson City National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in Jefferson City, in Cole County, Missouri. Administered by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, it encompasses 2 acres, and as of the end of 2005, had 1,792 interments.
4.3 miNE
Universities and schools
Lincoln University, Jefferson City
111 min walk • Lincoln University is a public historically black land-grant university in Jefferson City, Missouri. Founded in 1866 by African-American veterans of the American Civil War, it is a member-school of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund.
4.5 miNE
Park
Jefferson City Community Center, Jefferson City
116 min walk • Jefferson City Community Center, also known as Duke Diggs Community Center, is a historic African-American community centre located at Jefferson City, Cole County, Missouri. It was built in 1942, and is a one-story, "T"-plan, stone building.
3.3 miNW
Church, Gothic Revival architecture
Zion Lutheran Church, Jefferson City
84 min walk • Zion Lutheran Church is a historic Lutheran church located near Jefferson City, Cole County, Missouri. It was built in 1906, and is a one-story Gothic Revival building constructed of brick with a limestone foundation. It features a three-story front tower with a spire and a polygonal apse in the rear.
4.9 miNE
Tudor Revival architecture
Hobo Hill Historic District, Jefferson City
124 min walk • Hobo Hill Historic District is a national historic district located in Jefferson City, Cole County, Missouri. It encompasses seven contributing buildings in a predominantly residential section of Jefferson City.
4.8 miNE
Thomas Jefferson
John B. and Elizabeth Ruthven House, Jefferson City
124 min walk • John B. and Elizabeth Ruthven House, also known as the Wehmeyer House and Ruthven-Wehmeyer House, is a historic home located at Jefferson City, Cole County, Missouri.
4.7 miN
Neighbourhood
Munichburg Commercial Historic District, Jefferson City
121 min walk • Munichburg Commercial Historic District is a national historic district located at Jefferson City, Cole County, Missouri. It encompasses nine contributing buildings in Jefferson City. The district developed between about 1892 and 1951, and includes representative examples of Early Commercial and One and Two Part Commercial architecture.
4.7 miSE
Greek Revival architecture
Lewis and Elizabeth Bolton House, Jefferson City
121 min walk • Lewis and Elizabeth Bolton House, also known as the Herman and Johanna Winkelmann House and Belleview Farm, is a historic home located south of Jefferson City, Cole County, Missouri.