After spending more than five years and hundreds of thousands of dollars in a Herculean restoration effort, Noel and Mary Ann Crowson have turned their 1850s plantation-style house at 2815 Oakland Gravel Road over to their lenders. A foreclosure sale is set at 10 a.m. Friday outside the Boone County Courthouse.

"You reach the point where you are just too tired to keep on with it, no matter how much you see the vision," Mary Ann Crowson said. "Visions don’t make money." ...

Built by David Guitar, a captain in the Confederate army, the home has been on the National Register of Historic Places since 1993. The house began as a simple two-room frame abode and expanded over the years. The property also acquired another name. It was dubbed Confederate Hill by writer Ward A. Dorrance, who bought the house about 70 years ago....Crowson said she and her husband have done the heavy lifting and now the restored mansion would be ideal for professional office suites or as part of a historical village with a museum and shops.

"We accomplished what we set out to do," she said. "We saved the house for posterity"

At this point in the article, I'd like to simply post the email that I sent to the Crowson's thanking them for all that they have done for Missouri Confederate History...

"Mr. and Mrs. Crowson,