John R. Kirk House, Kirksville, Missouri

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I found some old photos I took back in 1998 of the John R. Kirk House, the home of a former president of Truman State University. I lived across the street from it for two years, and even back then, when I wasn’t actively doing historic photography, I still saw the value in capturing it.

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By the time I lived there, the stately house had been cut up into six apartments, but there were still traces of its former glory when you looked closely.

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Sadly, after my junior year in 1999, it was converted into an apartment building, destroying any hope that the house could one day serve as a vestige of Kirksville’s past.

Kirksville and Northeast Missouri 085

2 Comments Add yours

  1. Rebecca HORTON says:

    Can you tell me if this house was actually demolished and the apartments were built on same foundations or did they remodel the house into apartments?

    1. Chris Naffziger says:

      Rebecca, the apartments were built into the frame of the old house. I lived across from the house in college and watched them do it over the course of the summer of 1999.

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