Lexington State Historic Site: Anderson House Restoration – Lexington MO

City:
Lexington, MO

Site Type:
Monuments and Memorials, Civic Facilities, Archaeology and History, Historical Restoration

New Deal Agencies:
Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)

Marked:
No

Site Survival:
Extant

Description

The Works Progress Administration restored the Anderson House at the Lexington State Historic Site. According to a storyboard (pictured below) in the museum at this site, “significant repairs and restoration were undertaken by the Works Progress Administration as part of the relief effort associated with the Great Depression.”

Source notes

Museum visit, May 2018.

Site originally submitted by Hans Johnson on May 20, 2018.

Location Info


1101 Delaware
Lexington, MO 64067

Location notes: Anderson House, Battle of Lexington State Historic Site

Coordinates: 39.1895596, -93.881062

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