Northern Missouri
The Dalton-Uphoff House shows how rare early brick can be
The Dalton-Uphoff House near Stewartsville gives DeKalb County a rare early brick-house story tied to settlement, architecture, and one of the county's early families.
The Dalton-Uphoff House gives DeKalb County a quiet architecture story with a little surprise in it. The National Register file describes the house as built around 1850 and notes that it is architecturally unusual for both northwest Missouri and DeKalb County.
The reason is the material and the age. Early brick houses did not become common across every rural county landscape. The file points to only one other surviving early-period house in DeKalb County as a close comparison, the Mathias-Riggs house near Weatherby.
The people make the building less abstract. Richmond Dalton was one of the county’s early settlers. Later, Frederick and Caroline Tilker Uphoff, who had emigrated from Germany and lived in Wisconsin before coming to Missouri, became part of the house’s story.
This is not a note about a public attraction with a ticket window. It is a source-trail note. The value is knowing that DeKalb County has an early brick-house layer, and that the National Register file preserves the details for readers who want the deeper history.
Where to see it
- Dalton-Uphoff House National Register file
The Missouri State Parks National Register file serves as the public historic-source trail, and public access should not be assumed.
References
More from DeKalb County: browse every local note for the county.
Last checked against the sources above: July 16, 2026.