Design Guidelines

Design guidelines are created by a community in order to protect their historic resources, particularly those designated as landmarks or historic districts. Anyone wishing to make changes to a historic property or alter the appearance of a district must gain approval usually from a historic preservation commission or architectural review board. Below you will find links to design guidelines set in place by various communities across the state of Missouri.

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Cape Girardeau

• Design Guidelines for Downtown Cape Girardeau
• Certificate of Appropriateness Fact Sheet
• The Boulevard Local Historic District Design Guidelines

Columbia

• Design Guidelines for The District

Independence

• Historic Preservation Design Guidelines
• Truman Heritage District Design Guidelines

Excelsior Springs

• Hall of Waters Historic District Design Guidelines

Grandview

• Grandview Residential Historic District

Hannibal

• Hannibal, Missouri Design Review Guidelines

Jefferson City

• School Street Local Historic District Design Guidelines

Liberty

• Historic District Design Guidelines

Moberly

• Historic Downtown Moberly Design Guidelines

Poplar Bluff

• Poplar Bluff Historic Design Review Guidelines

Sainte Genevieve

• Design Guidelines for Saint Genevieve National Register Historic District

St. Louis

• Historic Shaw Neighborhood — Historic Preservation Guidelines

St. Joseph

• St. Joseph Historic District Guidelines — St. Joseph Landmarks Commission

Springfield

• Commercial Street Design Guidelines