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Cape Girardeau (/ dʒ ɪ ˈ r ɑːr d oʊ / jirr-AR-doh, French: Cap-Girardeau [kap ʒiʁaʁdo] ⓘ; colloquially referred to as "Cape") is a city in Cape Girardeau and Scott Counties in the U.S. state of Missouri.
Location of Cape Girardeau County in Missouri. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Cape Girardeau County, Missouri.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, United States.
Broadway and North Fountain Street Historic District is a national historic district located at Cape Girardeau, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri.The district encompasses four contributing buildings in the central business district of Cape Girardeau built between 1907 and 1937.
Cape Girardeau County was organized on October 1, 1812, as one of five original counties in the Missouri Territory after the US made the Louisiana Purchase of 1803. It is named after Ensign Sieur Jean Baptiste de Girardot (also spelled Girardeau or Girardat), a French officer stationed 1704–1720 at Kaskaskia in the Illinois Country of New France.
Cape Girardeau Commercial Historic District is a national historic district located in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. In 2000, the area listed was 1.6 acres (0.65 ha) and included 17 contributing buildings. In a first increase, an 1891 contributing building at 101 North Main Street was added.
Broadway Commercial Historic District is a national historic district located at Cape Girardeau, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri.The district encompasses 35 contributing buildings and 1 contributing structure in a predominantly commercial section of Cape Girardeau.
Fort D is the only surviving fortification built by Union troops in the area during the Civil War. Fort A was located slightly north of downtown Cape Girardeau on a high hill. A grist-grinding windmill was included in the fort. Fort B was located where Academic Hall now stands at Southeast Missouri State University.
Haarig Commercial Historic District is a national historic district located at Cape Girardeau, Missouri. In 2000, the area listed was 1.1 acres (0.45 ha) and included 13 contributing buildings. It developed between about 1875 and 1950, and includes representative examples of Italianate and Tudor Revival architecture. They are predominantly two ...