Columbia’s first City Hall and Jail take the State Preserve Missouri Award. The building is at 107 N. 9th St., and now houses Endwell Taverna on the first floor and offices on the second floor.

Deb Sheals, a historic preservation consultant headquartered in Columbia, received Missouri Preservation’s most prestigious award on April 29, 2025. Missouri Preservation is a state nonprofit dedicated to preserving Missouri’s cultural and historic resources.

A new Draft of City of Columbia's first ever Historic Preservation Plan has been submitted by the consultant.

Thank you to all of our wonderful volunteers!

ART-chitecture Contest

Join us February 25, 6-7:45pm at the library to learn about the 1931 home of Peter Bloch. Explore the story of its past and present through photographs.

Join us at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, December 17 at the library to hear about resources available for historic preservation. 

Check out the CoMo Preservation: CommunityMade List, a new resource designed to help you explore historic preservation and Columbia and Boone County’s history.

The List consists of online resources and 34 books and materials selected from the library’s extensive holdings by CoMo Preservation volunteers Nina Sappington and Dianna Borsi O’Brien. 

Join us to learn about the construction of the original buildings on the campus of the University of Missouri. We often hear about the landowners who donated money and land to found the University of Missouri, but we don’t often hear about who actually constructed the buildings on the university campus. Our guest speaker, Zachary Dowdle, will take us behind the scenes with his research into the role of enslaved people in the construction of the oldest buildings on the campus of the University of Missouri. Our 6 pm meeting on Tuesday November 19 is free and open to the public in the Friends Room of the Columbia Public Library.

Join us for a walking tour of spooky stories featuring several historic buildings in Columbia.