Keet-McElhany House

Keet-McElhany House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Keet-McElhany House, September 2013
Location within Missouri Location within the United States
Location	435 E. Walnut St., Springfield, Missouri
Coordinates	37°12′24″N 93°17′20″W
Area	less than one acre
Built	1881 (1881), 1886, 1900
Architectural style	Late Victorian
NRHP reference No.	84002545
Added to NRHP	March 22, 1984

Keet-McElhany House is a historic home located at Springfield, Greene County, Missouri. It was built in 1881, and enlarged in 1886, and remodeled in 1900. It is a three-story, brick dwelling featuring two dormer bedrooms and a library on the third floor and reflects Italianate and Queen Anne style design elements. It features a multi-hipped and gable roof, porch with a projecting gable, and two round corner towers. It is ornamented with plaster work decorating exterior surfaces of the porch and gables. The stained glass inserts in the front French doors feature female figures in a Greek style, and opens onto a grand staircase leading to a sitting area on the second floor. The lower level features twelve-foot ceilings throughout, with ten-foot French doors leading into a formal front parlor adjacent to the formal dining room, which is lit by a large original bay window. The second floor has ten-foot ceilings in the front of the house, and a marble bathroom, as well as a secondary bathroom. Marble fireplaces adorn three of the sitting rooms on the first floor, and coordinating tile fireplaces in coral and teal grace the front parlor as well as a second floor anteroom attached to one of the two second floor bedrooms. The second upstairs bed has an attached sunroom overlooking the front corner of the lot. The kitchen features a butler’s pantry. There is a detached summer kitchen which has been converted into a guest house.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.