Levi Morrill Post Office and Homestead

Levi Morrill Post
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	Southeast of Reeds Spring, at Notch, Missouri, near Reeds Spring, Missouri
Coordinates	36°40′32″N 93°20′13″W
Area	0.5 acres (0.20 ha)
Built	1893 (1893)
NRHP reference No.	79001397[1]
Added to NRHP	April 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. "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)