State Historic
Preservation Office
- National Register
- National Register Eligibility Assessment
- Courthouse Grants
- Tax Credits
- Archaeology
- Certified Local Governments
- History and Heritage
- Grants
- Section 106 Review
- Survey and Inventory
- Technical Assistance
- Commissions and Boards
- Report an Environmental Problem
Left: Yesterday's Governor Hotel; right: the art deco lobby of today's Governor Office Building
Photo on right: Scott Myers, Missouri Department of Natural Resources, Outreach and Assistance Center.
Once the hotel of choice for state senators, representatives and lobbyists, the Hotel Governor played host to numerous political meetings during the decades after its opening in 1942. By the late 1980s, however, competition had driven it into decline and eventual foreclosure. After a decade of standing vacant, the Art Deco building was saved and eventually transformed into an office building housing state agencies, thanks to the intervention of the late Governor Mel Carnahan and to the state historic rehab tax credit act passed by the General Assembly in 1997. For more about the building's history and its rehabilitation, check out the Summer 2001 issue of Missouri Resources!
