Nodaway News Leader

Introduction

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The Nodaway News Leader is located on 3rd Street between Main and Market streets. It is one of the main buildings surrounding the courthouse and contributing to the beautiful downtown that it is today. From this bright red brick building, the town of Maryville has received weekly printed papers since 1996, and they also provide news on their website. The current owner and publisher of the Nodaway News Leader is Kay Wilson.

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Nodaway News Leader Today

Building on 3rd St. between Main and Market St.

Sanborn Map 1886; Maryville, MO

Grocery store building during 1886- Zoomed in image of 3rd St. between Main and Market St.

Sanborn Map 1886; Maryville,MO

Grocery store building during 1886- Zoomed out image of 3rd St. between Main and Market St.

Sanborn Map 1891; Maryville,MO

Part of Kraus Hotel during 1891- Zoomed in image of 3rd St. between Main and Market St.

Sanborn Map 1891; Maryville, MO

Part of Kraus Hotel during 1891- Zoomed out image of 3rd St. between Main and Market St.

Sanborn Map 1900; Maryville, MO

Part of Kraus Hotel during 1900- Zoomed in image of 3rd St. between Main and Market St.

Sanborn Map 1900; Maryville, MO

Part of Kraus Hotel during 1900- Zoomed out image of 3rd St. between Main and Market St.

Sanborn Map 1909

Kettle during 1909- Zoomed in image of 3rd St. between Main and Market St.

Sanborn Map 1909

Kettle during 1909- Zoomed out image of 3rd St. between Main and Market

Backstory and Context

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The Nodaway News Leader building has quite a few different lives. According to the Sanborn maps in 1886 the first thing that this building was a grocery store. It later changed into being part of the Kraus Hotel. The Kraus Hotel was made up of three building joined together to better accommodate the people. This hotel seemed to prosper as it continued to still be standing and in these joined buildings during the 1900s. However, by the 1909 Sanborn map, the space has changed to a meat store, and we see the word kettle. This is due to the fact that Sanborn maps were used for fire insurance purposes and they wanted to point out things that may cause fires. In Sanborn maps meat is often referred to the meat shop that also has a smoke house behind the building that is represented by a yellow box.

Sources

Nodaway News Leader, https://nodawaynews.com/the-nodaway-news-leader/.

Maps and Cartography, https://www.oldhouseguy.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Maps_and_Cartography_Sanborns-How.pdf.

Image Sources(Click to expand)

Franchesca Gonzalez

1886 Sanborn Map: Maryville, MO, https://dl.mospace.umsystem.edu/mu/islandora/object/mu%3A142612.

1886 Sanborn Map: Maryville,MO, https://dl.mospace.umsystem.edu/mu/islandora/object/mu%3A142612.

1891 Sanborn Map: Maryville,MO, https://dl.mospace.umsystem.edu/mu/islandora/object/mu%3A142621.

1891 Sanborn Map: Maryville, MO, https://dl.mospace.umsystem.edu/mu/islandora/object/mu%3A142621

1900 Sanborn Map: Maryville, MO, https://dl.mospace.umsystem.edu/mu/islandora/object/mu%3A142626.

1900 Sanborn Map: Maryville, MO, https://dl.mospace.umsystem.edu/mu/islandora/object/mu%3A142626

1909 Sanborn Map: Maryville, MO, https://dl.mospace.umsystem.edu/mu/islandora/object/mu%3A142632.