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Photograph of Gen. Daniel Bissell House
Photograph by Chuck Morris, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Gen. Daniel Bissell House

Built in 1819 (Federal architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

From the record

“Daniel Bissell House is a historic house at 10225 Bellefontaine Road in Bellefontaine Neighbors, Missouri that was the home of War of 1812 General Daniel Bissell (general).”

Wikipedia article Gen. Daniel Bissell House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 663 National Register listings published here for St. Louis County · listed in 1978 · category: Building · built in 1819, Federal 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 as contributing to the listing.
  • Listed as. Bissell, Gen. Daniel, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 10225 Bellefontaine Rd., Bellefontaine Neighbors, 63137
  • When was it listed? November 1978
  • Category. building
  • Township. St. Ferdinand township
  • When was it built? 1819
  • Architectural style. Federal architecture
  • National Register reference number. 78003135 - 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

1 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Gen. Daniel Bissell House in 2006, burning under an acre 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/undetermined1

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
27 February 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Every fire recorded in St. Louis County

Mines and quarries near this property

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Gen. Daniel Bissell House: 7 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Prospect Hill Cement PlantStone, Crushed/Broken, ClayProducer
Bemmey QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Emmerick QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Wilson Larimore House1.7 miles1989
Baden School2.7 miles2022
Miles A. Seed Carriage House2.9 miles1987
Holy Cross Parish District3.3 miles1980
Wildwood House3.7 miles2006
Walnut Park School3.9 miles2013

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 78003135 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
St. Louis CountyAll 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.