TROY
HISTORIC HOMES TOUR
Saturday, July 1, 2006
10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
$8.00 in Advance
$10.00 on Tour Day
Tickets will be available at
138 E. Walnut on July 1st.
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Pick up your tickets at the Nelson Rogers\Tennant-Baker House, 138 E. Walnut, the oldest house in Troy, and then visit seven more of Troy's most beautiful and historic homes. BONUS HOME TOUR-HERITAGE LOFT
The Boder-Strong Mansion on West State Street at Park
This is a two-story chateauesque mansion with a large
attic and full basement. The house was probably expanded at least once. There is a rounded tower at the northwest corner with a conical roof. It is constructed of brick, which has been painted several times. Henri Boder, house and bridge builder, came with his wife and son, Henry Boder, Jr., to St. Joseph in 1834. Henry Jr. came to Troy in 1857 as deputy county clerk. Eventually he and his brother Louis began the banking business; their bank is now the First National Bank of Troy. The mansion was constructed about 1888 by Fred Close. Henry Boder, Jr. purchased it from him for $3600 in 1895. It became the Strong home when it passed to Louis Strong, husband of Boder daughter Anna. In 1989 it was sold to James Eighmy who gutted it. Rosemary Gray then purchased it to restore it and make a bed and breakfast, but she was unable to complete her plans and sold it to Jim and Diane Faunce in 1995. They are currently restoring the house with hopes of residing there and operating a bed-and-breakfast inn.
The Bond Residence at 115 East Chestnut
The Dr. William B. and Mable Perry Campbell House (circa 1912) is part of the Doniphan County Courthouse Square Historic District and is listed on the National Registry of Historic Places. Much of the house is original from the Campbell's residency. The woodwork, floors and some of the furniture are all original. One unique feature is the third floor, designed as a ballroom. Tom and Becky Bond are the current owners. The house was owned prior to their occupancy by Becky's mother, Ida Pinger.
The Euler Residence at 305 North Liberty
A. G. and Matilda Ege were the original owners for the entire block. In 1871 it was sold to John Brackenridge for $1400. When he died in 1884, he left the residence to his wife Eliza. By 1921 all of the property was sold to Maggie Finley. It passed through her family until the Hayes family bought it in 1940 and the current owners purchased it from the Hayes heirs. The current house was built in 1908 in the Craftsman style. This home uses elements of this style;the front porch with its porte cochere, leaded and colored glass, and a liberal use of wood, primarily oak. The house has undergone some changes through the years; the fireplace was added in the 1940s or 1950s; some windows were added and the kitchen has been remodeled. It also features a fully-floored attic where the Hayeses held square dances. With its open casual style, the house lends itself well to entertaining.
The Needham Residence at 320 North Liberty
This house was constructed in 1910 for J. S. Norman, at the time president of the First National Bank of Troy, now the 1st Bank of Troy. It was built for $4600, then a princely sum. With a few exceptions, the house remains original. James and Marjorie Needham are the current owners, and Earl Green owned it before them. During the Green residency, the downstairs was the living area. At one time the upstairs was an apartment, but the Needhams returned all the upstairs rooms to bedrooms and remodeled the bathroom.
The Triplett Town and Country Farm at 602 East Locust
Xeris Kees Stout came from Kentucky to Doniphan County in 1855. He eventually resided in Center Township, bordering Troy on the northeast. This acreage was apple orchards. known as Leland Apple Orchard. Martha J. Leland-Stout acquired the land and the home was constructed and later a sorghum factory near the railroad tracks. In 1945 the Russell C. Triplett family purchased the home, and it has been in the Triplett family ever since. It was built in approximately 1865, a Georgian-style home with a front of red brick thick walls. Wood frame additions came later. The foyer has a winding walnut staircase and there are nooks and crannies, of primitive nature, common to many homes of the era.
The Weiser Residence at 336 North Liberty
Sharon Weiser is the current owner of this 2 1/2 story Residual Queen Anne home built around 1915 for Charles V. Norman. The home has bay windows, dentil-trimmed cornices, leaded-transom windows and paired columns with a front porch extending to the porte cochere. The carriage house has a pedimented entrance to match the home's porch. The leaded-glaass windows on the north had been replaced with a large plate-glass window in the 1980s. However, the original windows were saved and have been restored. 
The four-season garden has been divided by the owner, a Master Gardener, into four garden rooms including formal parterres, a reflecting pool, a shade garden, fish pond, herb garden and butterfly garden. Because she transplanted many mature plants from her previous garden, the current garden, although only a year old, appears to be much more established. The garden is part of the tour of this house.
The Hayton-Williamson House at 501 South Main
Joseph Hayton, born in Chester County, England, in 1828, arrived in Troy in 1858, on his way to the gold mines of California. He ended up staying in Troy, preempting a claim, and began building this brick house that year. Having learned the trade of stone mason, Hayton used limestone from a quarry near Troy, and bricks fired locally at the brick plant, to construct this house “so substantially that it will probably outlast the son,” as written by Walter B. Montgomery in his ILLUSTRATED DONIPHAN COUNTY in 1916!
The house construction and architecture is of the pre-Civil War period and is of typical English style. The original house had a full basement with a plan area of 36 feet east and west by 40 feet north and south. Upon this basement there was constructed a two-story brick house with walls of soft brick held together by lime and sand mortar, about nine and one-half inches thick.
Stone lintels or keystone construction was used over the doors and windows.
The sculptured heads of Joseph and Electa (his wife) Hayton are on the keystones of the east windows of the upstairs northeast corner room. A sculptured snake and sculptured (goat)(devil’s)(??) head are on the keystones of the west windows of the upstairs northwest corner room.
The basement walls are random rock with lime and sand mortar, with stone blocks that have been accurately cut, set at the top of the walls to carry the brick walls of the house.
It is not known but is assumed that the “country kitchen” was constructed in the same period as the house, or soon thereafter. This building is of the same construction as the house and in plan area is 18 feet east and west by 11.5 feet north and south; it is located 22 feet south of the southwest corner of the house.
An Annex (used as an ice house), 27.9 feet east and west by 12.9 feet north and south, was constructed along the east 16.4 feet portion of the south side of the original house. Today this annex is the kitchen.
Mr. Hayton Sr. was accidentally killed April 12, 1895, when a team of horses which he was driving ran away, the tongue of the wagon striking Mr. Hayton, killing him. His son, Joseph Hayton Jr., inherited the house and the remaining 50 acres. Apparently Joseph Hayton Jr. became an alcoholic who let the place run down considerably. Ben Williamson found bullet holes in the door in the front room of the apartment which he attributed to one of the son’s drunken forays!!
When Joseph Hayton, Jr. died in about 1929, the estate held the place until 1933, when A. E. and Frances Williamson bought the place. Its condition at that time was quite deplorable and they bought it relatively cheap. It took them two years of work to make it livable before they could move to the house, adding electricity and indoor plumbing, and reconstructing and adding to the rock walls that line the driveway and the east side of the house.
In 1959, Frances Williamson moved to a smaller house in Troy, leaving the place to her oldest son, Ben Williamson and wife Mae. Ben and Mae made considerable improvements through the years, both when Ben’s parents lived here and when they lived here.
Mae died in 1996, Ben in 2004, and left the place to their daughter, Pat Williamson Dill, who now resides there.
The Heritage Loft at 122 East Walnut
As a special surprise bonus visit Troy's first loft apartment. Dr. Dennis Myers has renovated the old Transit Hotel and has converted the second floor into an apartment. It will be open and visitors are welcome from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. on Saturday, July 1, 2006.
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