“Uh, it doesn’t look like it’s open anymore,” I dryly remarked as we pulled up in front of the Bentley House, constructed in 1892.

While there is a deteriorating asphalt parking lot around the side of the house that confirms that this property was once open to the public for some sort of use, it certainly is not anymore.

Serving as a dorm for nearby Drury University at one point, it most certainly is no longer the “Museum of the Ozarks,” as one travel guide claimed. Moving along…