Built in 1893. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.
From the record
“O'Bannon Homestead, also known as Schuyler Stock Farm, Steeple House, and Four Leaf Clover Farm, is a historic home and farm complex located near Garden City, Cass County, Missouri. The farmhouse was built in 1893, and is a two-story, rectangular, frame dwelling with Queen Anne style embellishments.”
Wikipedia article O'Bannon Homestead, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 7 National Register listings published here for Cass County · listed in 1979 · category: Building · built in 1893.
National Register reference number.79001356- 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.
The ground it stands on
187 words
The chapter on Index Township in History of Cass County, Missouri, published 1917 names Garden City. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.
1873. Hugh G. Glenn was clerk of the association and the writer was a delegate to this association. It is quite interesting to reflect and recall the names and faces of the many who attended this meeting. Alas, these men and woman, like the town, have passed the way of all the earth. Few there are who now remember this town, although it has been gone but a few years. On the demise of Index town, some of its houses and all its business moved to the present thriving city of Garden City, in the same township.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 5 fires within 5 miles of O'Bannon Homestead
between 1996 and 2018, burning about 54 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
3
Recreation and ceremony
1
Debris and open burning
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
3 workings within 5 miles of O'Bannon Homestead: 2 past producers, 1 producer.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Garden City, the town this property stands in, in 42 storm reports between 1994 and 2021: 22 hail, 15 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 2 tornado.
The reports record 1 death and 2 injuries. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office
filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date
opens the federal record of that event.
Two mobile homes destroyed with two injuries. One of these injured died as a result of their injuries on September 3, 2003. One house had major damage with one injury. Numerous trees down or damaged along with outbuildings.
Tornado briefly touched down at Highway 7 and County Road Z interchange. No damage and was reported by storm chaser. Tornado touched back down just north of the interchange, and then continued intermittently for 4 miles to the Johnson county line around Latour, near the inersection of Routes 2 and 131.
Winds of around 70 to 80 mph occurred in Garden City as a strong, decaying thunderstorm moved into that area. While the storm was severe, the winds in and around Garden City were somewhat unique to the event and the damage across the city indicated some enhanced winds, probably associated with a significant downburst. While the official estimate is around 70 to 80 mph winds, it's plausible that faster winds were experienced in that area with this event solely based on the damage.
Roof tiles blown off. Automobile had windshield shattered and roof dented in. TV antenna blown over. A single wide trailer moved 4 feet of its foundation.
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.
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.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.
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