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Harris Teachers College

Built in 1857 (Tudor Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.

From the record

“Harris-Stowe State University (HSSU) is a public historically black university in St. The university offers 50 majors, minors, and certificate programs in education, business, and arts & sciences.”
Wikipedia article Harris-Stowe State University, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 663 National Register listings published here for St. Louis County · listed in 2004 · category: Building · built in 1857, Tudor Revival architecture.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building, 1 object as contributing to the listing.
Address. 1517 South Theresa, St. Louis (Independent City), 63104
When was it listed? August 2004
Category. building
Also known as. St. Louis Public Schools of William B. Ittner MPS (AD); St. Louis Public Schools of William B. Ittner MPS (AD); St. Louis Public Schools of William B. Ittner MPS
When was it built? 1857
Architectural style. Tudor Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 04000787 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

3 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Harris Teachers College between 2006 and 2014, burning about 2 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
22 March 2014	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
27 February 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
9 October 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Every fire recorded in St. Louis County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 101 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 101 workings within 5 miles of Harris Teachers College: 94 past producers, 4 producers, 2 plants, 1 prospect. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Fire Clay (Refractory), Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
(Facility) Sauget Zinc Refinery	Zinc, Refiner, Sulfur, Sulfuric Acid	Plant
Bambrick-Bates Constr. Co. Quarry 1	Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Delore Barite Mill	Barium-Barite	Producer
Hypothetical Lead Mine	Lead, Silver, Zinc, Cobalt, Copper, Nickel, Cadmium	Prospect	Underground
Krummel and Buchner Mine	Coal, Fire Clay (Refractory)	Past Producer
Pfizer Inc. Mineral Pigments	Iron	Producer
St Louis Perlite Plant	Perlite	Producer
Parker-Russell Fireclay Mine	Fire Clay (Refractory), Coal	Past Producer
Superior Dredge and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Plant
Tole and Thorp Fireclay Mine	Fire Clay (Refractory), Coal	Past Producer

Every working recorded in St. Louis County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
Tower, George F., Jr. and Carrie, House	under 500 feet	2005
Edward Wyman School	0.2 miles	1992
Pevely Dairy Company Buildings	0.2 miles	2006
Tiffany Neighborhood District	0.3 miles	1983
Columbia Oil Company	0.4 miles	2019
Immaculate Conception Church and Rectory	0.4 miles	2008

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 04000787 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
St. Louis County	All 663 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.