David Guitar House

The Guitar House, previously known as Confederate Hill, is a historic home located in Columbia, Missouri. It was built between 1859 and 1862, and is a two-story, Italianate style dwelling. It has a low pitched hipped roof, tall slender windows with segmented arches, decorative eave brackets, and a single story front porch with square supports. The house was constructed by David Guitar, an officer in the Union forces (the 61st Regiment of the Enrolled Missouri Militia) during the American Civil War.[2][3] The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.[1]

David Guitar House
Location2815 Oakland Gravel Rd., Columbia, Missouri
Coordinates38°58′47″N 92°18′16″W
Area27 acres (11 ha)
Built1859 (1859)-1862
Architectural styleItalianate
NRHP reference No.93000939[1]
Added to NRHPSeptember 9, 1993

Property name

It is commonly thought David Guitar served in the Confederate forces, but this is a myth perhaps started by a previous owner of the house, Ward Dorrance, who renamed the property Confederate Hill while he owned it from 1940 to 1953. Dorrance was a fiction writer and teacher. He left his papers to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.[4]

Other documentation of Guitar's Union service includes the front-page obituary published Jan. 2, 1912 in the University Missourian. The National Register of Historic Places document cites the correct source and page, but concludes incorrectly that the Enrolled Missouri Militia is a Confederate force. Further, Switizler's History of Boone County contains no records of Confederate service records, because "There are no official records accessible of the Confederate soldiers, and but few of the Federals."[5]

References
  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. https://www.sos.mo.gov/mdh
  3. Switzler, William F. (1882). History of Boone County. St. Louis: Western Historical Company. p. 482.
  4. https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/04127/
  5. Marie C. Nau (April 1993). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: David Guitar House" (PDF). Missouri Department of Natural Resources. Retrieved 2016-09-01.
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