It is well known for the cannonball embedded in the upper left column, a remnant of the Civil War.

The judges chose a site on the new Main Street in Lexington, an approved plans for a magnificent structure of the Classic Greek Revival design.

Silas Silver, John Catron, Robert Aull, and Henderson Young served as project and contract overseers, and William Dougherty was the architect.

[2] There is a cannonball embedded in the upper left column, a remnant of the Civil War Battle of Lexington I, fought on September 18, 19 and 20, 1861.

This article about a property in Lafayette County, Missouri on the National Register of Historic Places is a stub.