Caldwell County MO Archives History .....OLD MIRABILE TAVERN AT MIRABILE 
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THE OLD MIRABILE TAVERN AT MIRABILE
	Narrator:  Mrs. Kate Hartpence, 70, Mirabile

     Mrs. Hartpence is the present owner and occupant of the old building 
known as the Mirabile Tavern and later as the Mirabile Hotel.  She uses it now 
as a private residence.
     It is made in two parts out of two different materials and at two 
periods.  The brick part is the original part built probably in 1850.  The 
frame addition was built by Isaac Sackman when he owned and ran the hotel.  
The old brick part stands on the street in true old tavern style.  It 
resembles greatly the Arrow Rock Tavern in its style of architecture, with a 
chimney and fireplace at end gable end.  On the outside, one may see the ends 
of the iron rods which run thru the buildings as stays.
     Inside are the great fireplaces, now boarded up and stoves are used.  The 
old pine wood work is still there but new floors have been put in.  There are 
two front doors.  The one to the west opened to the tavern office, where 
possibly in the early days whiskey was sold.  There yet remains the high bench 
by the wall which served for hotel business and where the tax collector came 
with his books.
     The other door opens into a hall with various doors.  One door with an 
old fashioned latch leads upstairs.  One goes into what in early days was the 
tavern dining room with a great fireplace.  This is now Mrs. Hartpence's 
living room.
     When Mr. Sackman built the frame part, he built it on a lower level and 
added a kitchen, dining room and bedroom, besides bedrooms upstairs.  The 
frame upstairs rooms are in bad repair now and have not been used, for years 
and rarely entered.
     When asked about the "loopholes" (holes through which to discharge 
weapons) which popular report said were present in the back of the building 
from Civil War days, to be used by the Union militia housed there, Mrs. 
Hartpence, said that she knew nothing of them.  They might have been changed 
before she moved into the house.
     Interview  November 1934.     

(Another different narration about this old building is to be found in the 
first series of these interviews.)


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