James M. Dinwiddie House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

From the record

“Dinwiddie House, also known as Maple Grove Stock Farm, is a historic home located near Dover, Lafayette County, Missouri. It was built about 1840, and is a two-story, central passage plan, vernacular Greek Revival style brick I-house.”
Wikipedia article James M. Dinwiddie House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 32 National Register listings published here for Lafayette County · listed in 1997 · category: Building.

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. Dinwiddie, James M., House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 0.25 mi. E of jct. of US 24 and MO 184, Dover, 64067
When was it listed? November 1997
Category. building
Also known as. Antebellum Resources of Johnson, Lafayette, Pettis, and Saline Counties MPS
Township. Dover township
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 97001430 - 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

19,492 words

The chapter on Dover Township in History of Lafayette County, Mo. , Carefully Written and Compiled from the Most Authentic Official and Private Sources, Including a History of Its Townships, Cities, Towns, and Villages, Together with a Condensed History of Missouri; the Constitution of the United States, and State of Missouri; a Military Record of Volunteers in Either Army of the Great Civil War .., published 1881 names Dover. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.

The first mention of Dover township occurs February 5, 1836, when it was ordered by the county court " that Tabo township be hereafter known and designated by the name and style of Dover township." This was only a small remnant of the original Tabo township, and comprised the most of the territory now embraced in Dover and Middleton townships. The boundaries of the newly named township are not given; but it is at this date laid off into eight road districts, with numbers and overseers as follows:

Passage source: History of Lafayette County, Mo. , Carefully Written and Compiled from the Most Authentic Official and Private Sources, Including a History of Its Townships, Cities, Towns, and Villages, Together with a Condensed History of Missouri; the Constitution of the United States, and State of Missouri; a Military Record of Volunteers in Either Army of the Great Civil War .., published 1881.

The first mention of schools occurs May 4, 1840. A majority of the voters of Dover township had petitioned to be organized in accordance with an act of the legislature, entitled " an act to provide for the organization, support, and government of common schools," approved February 9, 1839. The county court appointed Joseph W. Hall, Nathaniel Davidson, and Hubbell Foster, school directors for the township; and the first school meeting was to be held at the town of Dover, July 23, following.

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 Dover Township - 19,492 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of James M. Dinwiddie House: 2 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Unknown	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
	Unknown	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Lafayette County

Storms near this property

6 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dover, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 2000 and 2020: 2 flash flood, 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. 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
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Dover	$10,000	Power lines were downed near Dover.
July 2020	Flood	Dover	-	Missouri Department of Transportation reported Highway 213 closed at Little Talbot Creek due to flooding.
July 2008	Flash Flood	Dover	-	Water was reported over Highway 213, between Highways 24 and 20, as well as as over Highway 224, west of Lexington.
May 2002	Flash Flood	Dover	-	Highway P closed due to high water.
August 2017	Hail	Dover	-	no account filed
May 2003	Hail	Dover	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lafayette 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
Thomas Shelby House	4.6 miles	1997
Minatree Catron House	5.3 miles	1997
Hicklin School	6.6 miles	2004
Confederate Chapel, Cemetery and Cottage	6.7 miles	1981
Hicklin Hearthstone	6.8 miles	1982
Robinson, William, P., House	7.7 miles	1997

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 97001430 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lafayette County	All 32 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.
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.