Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.
From the record
“Napoleon Buck House was a historic home located near Waverly, Lafayette County, Missouri. It was built about 1873, and was a two-story, central passage plan, vernacular Greek Revival style brick I-house.”
Wikipedia article Napoleon Buck House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 32 National Register listings published here for Lafayette County · listed in 1997 · category: Building.
Also known as. Antebellum Resources of Johnson, Lafayette, Pettis, and Saline Counties MPS
Township. Middleton township
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number.97001431- 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 next mention of Middleton is September 7, 1847, when it occurs incidentally in a petition for a road which was to " commence at the state road leading from Boonville to Lexington at or near where the said state road crosses the county line between Lafayette and Saline county, to run thence in a northwesterly direction to the town of Middleton, etc. But on July 1st, 1850, this town of Middleton had its name changed to Waverly; its boundaries were much enlarged, and it became an incorporated village. The petition for incorporation was signed by Charles M. Cowan and thirty four others, claiming to be more than two-thirds of the taxpaying inhabitants of the village. David Callahan, Lewis Fairchild, Elisha M. Edwards, Charles M. Cowan, and Alexander Skillen were appointed as the first board of trustees of the new corporation.
Waverly Lodge, No. 114, was organized by Judge John F. Ryland, under dispensation dated June 15, 1849. The following were the first officers: Henry B. Harvey, W. M. ; Michael Stevenson, S. W.; G. W. Hereford, J. W.; W. W. Shroyer, treasurer; John S. Nowland, secretary; A. Franciscoe, S. D.; J. M. Lewis, J. D.; Joseph W. Cloudsley, tyler. Surrendered their charter January. 28, 1860, on account of war troubles, and were never rechartered.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Napoleon Buck House
between 2004 and 2011, burning about 11 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
Debris and open burning
2
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
8 workings within 5 miles of Napoleon Buck House: 8 past producers.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Waverly, the town this property stands in, in 27 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 14 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 5 flood, 2 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.
At 1458CST an EF0 tornado touched down in Waverly. The tornado moved about a tenth of a mile to the east, and lifted at 1503CST. A small portion of a mobile home roof was removed. A small garden shed was damaged. Minor tree damage was reported.
An EF0 tornado or landspout touched down briefly at 1650CST, three miles southeast of Waverly. The tornado was stationary and lifted or dissipated at 1651CST. Tree damage was observed, along with shingle damage to the roof of a residence.
Ongoing flooding along the Missouri River continued through the month of April and into May. Several roads were closed near the banks of the Missouri River. This flooding began in mid March and due to upstream releases and continued periods of heavy rain the flooding continued into May. Monetary damages are unknown despite the entry indicating 0 dollars of damages.
Heavy spring rains caused ongoing flooding along the Missouri River to Continue through the month. Some locations along the Missouri River experienced major flooding at times during the month. Damage estimates from roads washed out and crop damage are unknown at this time.
Heavy spring rains caused ongoing flooding along the Missouri River to Continue through the month. Some locations along the Missouri River experienced major flooding at times during the month. Damage estimates from roads washed out and crop damage are unknown at this time.
A National Weather Service employee reported large trees, 18 inches in diamter and 50 feet tall, blown over by severe thunderstorm winds. The winds also knocked down telephone lines in the Waverly area.
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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