Samuel F. Bell House, County Route CC vicinity, Center, Ralls County, MO

Significance: An example of a two-story, single-pile (one room deep), five bay house, with central stair and end chimneys, and has a single-story rear ell contemporaneous with the front section. The plan is a familiar vernacular type, and the finish details show a lingering taste for Italianate features common a generation earlier. The house contains three folk murals (one of which remains exposed) painted about 1950 on the plaster walls.
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-80
Survey number: HABS MO-1204
Building/structure dates: ca. 1881 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: ca. 1914 Subsequent Work