Murphysburg, 1871. Patrick Murphy purchased
a forty-acre tract from Oliver Picher in 1871. This land
covered what is now 1st Street to 4th Street and from Main
to Byers. After Murphy and an associate, W.P. Davis, filed
for a plat for a new town on September 4, 1871, they named
it Murphysburg. (In 1873, Murphysburg and Joplin City merged
and became incorporated under the name of Joplin.) Murphy,
who served as the fourth mayor of Joplin, also organized
the Joplin Exposition Amusement Park and donated the land
for the first permanent St. John’s Hospital.
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In 1992, the City of Joplin designated Sergeant Avenue
from Second Street to Fourth Street as the “Murphysburg
Residential Historic District.” At the request of
homeowners in the adjacent neighborhoods, the City of
Joplin expanded the historic district in 2004. Today,
the historic district encompasses Sergeant Avenue from
First Street to Seventh Street and Moffet Avenue from
First Street to Fourth Street.
Historic Murphysburg Preservation, Inc.,
a non-profit corporation, endeavors to preserve the integrity
of the district and raise public awareness.
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Click on the homes below to see an enlarged view of them
420
Byers
Simon
Schwartz house
1890
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529 Moffet
Michel
Bauer house
1908
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Mayflower Apartments
1928
(SW corner Moffet & 5th)
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405 Moffet
James Dangerfield house
1890
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320
Moffet
Olivia Apartments
1906
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310 Moffet
Jesse Starr house
1905
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220 Moffet
Henry McNeal house
1908
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118 Moffet
Benedict Landauer
house
1902
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106 Moffet
Thomas Nolan house
1902
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102
Moffet
Charles Moore
house
1908
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107 Sergeant
Abraham Onstott
house
1905
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111 Sergeant
William H. Miller
house
1899
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112 Sergeant
Austin
Allen house
1906
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202
Sergeant
Adam Scott house
1900
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210
Sergeant
O.S. Picher house
1904
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219 Sergeant
Thomas Lennan house
1917
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218 Sergeant
William Houk house
1903
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301 Sergeant
James Geddes house
1890's
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302
Sergeant
Frank Childress house
mid-1920's
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314 Sergeant
James Hewitt house
1899
Destroyed by fire, 2005
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318 Sergeant
Charles Frye house
1891
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NE corner Sergeant & 4th
Alfred Rogers house
1899
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406 Sergeant
Edward Zelleken house
1893
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422 Sergeant
Charles Schifferdecker house
1890
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421 Sergeant
W.H. Picher house
1899
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501
Sergeant
Fletcher Snapp house
1905
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507
Sergeant
Albert Winchester house
1905
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508 Sergeant
Henry Weymann house
1891
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523 Sergeant
Gustav
Kleinkauf house
1905
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528 Sergeant
Julius Miller house
1899
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608 Sergeant
George Lavery house
1899
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611 Sergeant
Elisha Matthews/George N. Spiva
house
1902
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616 Sergeant
Arthur Waite house
1906
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419 Jackson
John Johnson house
1905
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521 Wall
August Michaelis house
1900
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