title: Thomas Nelson House (Boonville, Missouri)
text: # Thomas Nelson House (Boonville, Missouri)
  
  Thomas Nelson House, also known as Forest Hill, is a historic home located at Boonville, Cooper County, Missouri. It was built in 1843, and is a two-story, Greek Revival style brick dwelling with a rear ell. Symmetrical, flanking one-story wings were added about 1946. It has a side gable roof and features a two-story gabled, pedimented front portico, constructed about 1853. The house is in the George Caleb Bingham painting "Forest Hill the Nelson $Homestead."^{:2}$
  
  It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.
  
  