Levi Morrill Post
Levi Morrill Post Office and Homestead is located in Missouri
Levi Morrill Post Office and Homestead
Levi Morrill Post Office and Homestead is located in the United States
Levi Morrill Post Office and Homestead
LocationSoutheast of Reeds Spring, at Notch, Missouri, near Reeds Spring, Missouri
Coordinates36°40′32″N 93°20′13″W / 36.67556°N 93.33694°W / 36.67556; -93.33694
Area0.5 acres (0.20 ha)
Built1893 (1893)
NRHP reference No.79001397[1]
Added to NRHPApril 3, 1979

Levi Morrill Post Office and Homestead, also known as Uncle Ike's Post Office, is a historic post office located at Notch, Stone County, Missouri. The property includes five contributing buildings dated between 1893 and 1926. They are the Notch, Missouri ("Uncle Ike's") Post Office, the Levi Morrill homestead, a well house, smokehouse and privy. The post office is a one-story, rectangular, gable roofed frame building. It was the model for Uncle Ike's Post Office in Harold Bell Wright's novel The Shepherd of the Hills.[2]: 2–3 

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ Vern Modeland and James M. Denny (January 1979). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Levi Morrill Post" (PDF). Missouri Department of Natural Resources. Retrieved 2017-02-01. (includes 10 photographs from 1978)


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