Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.
From the record
“Odessa Ice Cream Company Building is a historic commercial building and ice cream factory located in Odessa, Lafayette County, Missouri. It was built in 1929, and is a two-story, three bay by five bay, clay block and brick building.”
Wikipedia article Odessa Ice Cream Company Building, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 32 National Register listings published here for Lafayette County · listed in 1996 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.96001065- 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.
What happened here
An account from the chapter on Sni-A-Bar township. The inset identifies its exact
source book and publication year.
The following is given by Mr. Eli Adams: In the spring of 1841, Mrs. Mary Scott and her son, King B. Scott, were murdered in this township. Mrs. Scott's body was found in the fire in the house. In the spring of 1843, two years afterward, the body of King B. Scott was found in a branch of the Sni. Suspicion rested upon John C.
The Hopewell O. S. Presbyterian Church, at Odessa, was organized September 14, 1850. The original members were: John H. Allison, Eliza Bledsoe, Sarah Bullard, C. D. Copp, S. S. Cornwell, Nancy Davidson, John Jackson, Clarinda Jackson, James M. Keith, Thomas Lee, Mary Lee, Elizabeth Lee, Ann Mary Lee, Elizabeth Keith, Nathaniel C. and Rebecca Maxwell, Mary M. Chesney,Jane Patterson, John B. and Adaline Taylor, H. and Lena Young.
Odessa Baptist Church, originally Mt. Hope church, changed August, 1879. It was organized August 25, 1874. Original members: Ann Bird, Hannah Barker, J. B., Nancy, M. E., Thomas W., and Rev. James L. Carmichael; Winifred Burns, Virgil, Samantha, r.nd Mattie E. Halsell, Viola Hatch, Richard Y. Nichelsen, Milton, Mary, Ida B., and Dora M. Smith; Mary J. Starr, Lucinda McClure, Geo. W., and Elizabeth Wheeler. The chnrch is frame and was built in 1878, at a cost of $1,450. The church was dedicated August 29, 1880, by the late Rev. Isaac N. Newman. Their pastors have been: Geo. W. Smith, 1874; D. C. Bolton, 1875; J. B. Jackson, 1876; I. N. Newman, 1877; Henry Barton, a short time in 1878; J as. L. Carmichael, 1878; L. Ellege, 1879; Alex. Barton, 1879; W. T. Russell, 1881, the present pastor. Present members number eigty-seven. Revs. Newman and Barton were supplies only for a short timt each. The regular Baptists own a one-fourth interest in the building. Milton Smith, T, W. Carmichael, Thos. W. Gott, trustees, Thomas W. Carmichael, clerk. They have an interesting Sunday-school, organized in April, 1880; Thomas W. Carmichael, superintendant.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Odessa Ice Cream Company Building
between 2005 and 2019, burning about 72 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
4
Equipment and vehicle use
1
Recreation and ceremony
1
Arson/incendiarism
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
5 workings within 5 miles of Odessa Ice Cream Company Building: 5 past producers.
None of them 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
Odessa, the town this property stands in, in 50 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 22 hail, 21 thunderstorm wind, 6 flash flood, 1 tornado.
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.
Water was covering the front porch and up to the door threshold at a residence in Odessa. There was substantial water running through the yard, and small livestock needed to be rescued from the rising water.
A brief tornado formed within a linear convective severe storm that moved through the Kansas City Metro area. As the storm approached Odessa, Missouri a weak and brief tornado caused some minor damage to businesses and residences in Odessa. The worst of the damage occurred across the west end of town, then the tornado crossed Interstate 70 causing a semi to overturn on the westbound lane of I-70 near Odessa.
Between 2 and 4 inches of rain fell over much of Lafayette County resulting in several reports of flash flooding. In Odessa, Highway U which is just east of Highway M, was under 2 feet of water for a half mile stretch.
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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