BlockFrom the record
One of 414 National Register listings published here for Jackson County · listed in 1988 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
German Evangelical Pastors' Home Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.
The listing
- Address. 1808--1812 W. Walnut and 300--311 19th Terrace, Blue Springs, 64015
- When was it listed? October 1988
- Category. district
- Township. Sni-A-Bar township
- National Register reference number. 88001856 - 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
6,834 wordsThe chapter on Sni-A-Bar Township in The History of Jackson County, Missouri, Containing a History of the County, Its Cities, Towns, Etc., Biographical Sketches of Its Citizens, Jackson County in the Late War... History of Missouri, Map of Jackson County .., published 1881 names Blue Springs. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.
Sni-a-bar or ' ' Shnee-a-bar " township, as it occurs in some old records, was first organized May 5, 1834, but has undergone many changes since that date. Sni-a-bar township is bounded north by Fort Osage, east by Lafayette county, south by Van Buren and Prairie, and west by Prairie and Blue townships. It is the central eastern township, and enjoys as great a variety of surface and soil as any in Jackson county. The population is between 4,350 and 5,000, and the agricultural resources are very superior especially in the western portion. The township contains 600 farms under cultivation, averaging 100 acres each, and these farms are valued at from $20 to $35 per acre, depending on location and improvements. The Chicago & Alton Railroad runs through the township in an easterly and westerly direction, and upon this line Blue Springs, Grain Valley and Oak Grove, three little villages within its borders are located. Pink Hill, another little post village, is situated about four miles north of the Chicago & Alton Railroad.
Passage source: The History of Jackson County, Missouri, Containing a History of the County, Its Cities, Towns, Etc., Biographical Sketches of Its Citizens, Jackson County in the Late War... History of Missouri, Map of Jackson County .., published 1881.
Frankhn Smith settled near the village of Blue Springs about the year 1838. He established the first post-office at this point, and named it Blue Springs, from which the village afterward derived its name. He came from Virginia. He represented the county in the General Assembly of the State, and held the office of Justice of the Peace for many years, for which he was considered particularly well qualified.
Passage source: The History of Jackson County, Missouri, Containing a History of the County, Its Cities, Towns, Etc., Biographical Sketches of Its Citizens, Jackson County in the Late War... History of Missouri, Map of Jackson County .., published 1881.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Read the whole chapter on Sni-A-Bar Township - 6,834 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.
Fires near this property
1 since 2011Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of German Evangelical Pastors' Home Historic District in 2011, burning about 1 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/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 November 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.2 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 14 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of German Evangelical Pastors' Home Historic District: 13 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown-S&G | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown-S&G | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Pink Hill Mine & Mill | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Unknown-Ls | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown-Ls | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown-Ls | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown-Ls | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown-Ls | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown-Ls | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown-Ls | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
7 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Blue Springs, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 1994 and 1996: 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blue Springs | $10,000 | no account filed |
| May 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blue Springs | $2,000 | Severe Thunderstorms moved through downtown Kansas City with damaging winds and torrential rains. 60 mph winds were reported at the Federal building, and the roof was blown off of the Lincoln Academy Prep School at 22nd and Woodland. Heavy rains causing flash flooding, with Southwest Trafficway closed near 25th street, in addition to other flooding of city streets. The storms continued east to Blue Springs, where numerous small tree limbs were broken off. Lightning struck a house in the south part of Kansas City, igniting the wood shingles. The home and its contents were nearly a total loss due to the ensuing fire. |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blue Springs | $2,000 | National Weather Service personnel reported downed trees and power outages in the Blue Springs area. |
| June 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blue Springs | - | Large tree limbs were knocked down near Independence Center shopping mall. |
| April 1995 | Hail | Blue Springs | - | no account filed |
| April 1995 | Hail | Blue Springs | - | no account filed |
| April 1995 | Hail | Blue Springs | - | no account filed |
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
5 within 8 milesOther 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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mason Building | 4.4 miles | 2021 | |
 | Andrew Drumm Institute | 6.6 miles | 2006 |
 | Jackson County Courthouse | 7.4 miles | 1972 |
| Four Gates Farm | 7.7 miles | 1991 | |
| Unity School of Christianity Historic District | 8.0 miles | 1989 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 88001856 in Record Group 79. |
| Jackson County | All 414 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.
- 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.