623 E. High  

          The Queen Anne frame residence was built by William Alexander Sombart in the late 1890’s.  He was a part owner of the Boonville Mills Company and served as the first vice-president of the Boonville National Bank.  Characteristic of the style, there are gable roof attic dormers, decorative vergeboards and chamfered corners with scroll brackets and pendants.  The porches on the southeast and southwest retain evidence of Eastlake motifs such as turned posts, spindles, and lattice work.  The southeast porch has been screened in, a second story porch has been added, and the first story porch shortened.  There is one addition to the rear; it is one story on a fieldstone foundation.  There are three outbuildings.  A vertical board and batten garage sits to the northeast of the residence.  There is a frame open storage building to the northwest.  To the rear, there is a two-room clapboard gables frame building on a brick foundation used by the family as the main residence was being built and later used as servants’ housing. 

Funding for this page was provided by Boonville Tourism Commission

This page was constructed by:

Amanda Dodson

This site is listed on the National Register Historic Places.

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