title: Palace Hotel (Butler, Missouri)
text: # Palace Hotel (Butler, Missouri)
  
  Palace Hotel, also known as M.S. Cowles & Co., American Clothing House, Ross Hotel, and J.C. Penney Co., is a historic hotel and commercial building located at Butler, Bates County, Missouri. It was built in 1879, and is a three-story, rectangular, Italianate style wood-frame building faced in brick. It features a highly ornamented front facade, including elaborated window crowns in an inverted-U $shape.^{:5–6}$
  
  It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.
  
  