Selby's Hotel
SW Corner of 8th St. and Broadway

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Excerpt from The Tavern Played An Important Role In Pioneer Boone County
by John C. Crighton, Copyright Boone County Historical Society 1987
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Thomas Selby operated a tavern at the southwest corner of Broadway and Eighth Street. Washington Irving spent the night of Sept. 19, 1832, there. Selby,[...], engaged in the slave trade–though on a larger scale.¹ In 1851, he sold his tavern equipment and furnishings to John Van Horn and John D. Van Horn. Several years later, he purchased the large two-story frame building at the southeast corner of Eight Street and Walnut–originally built by Alexander Douglass as a residence–and transformed it into a new establishment known as the Planters’ House.²

Annotations

¹ Columbia Missouri Statesman, Aug. 22, 1851

² William F. Switzler, History of Boone County (St. Louis: Western Historical Co., 1882), p. 1000