Katherine Stanislawski, Rolla Realtor

09/09/2026

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Officially in the ‘ber months and the plants will be ready for you on Saturday! Hope to see you between 9a-4p!

09/09/2026

I’m so blessed to get to work with the coolest folks in town. Thank you for trusting me with the sale of your home. Enjoy this new chapter.

09/06/2026

Thanks for sharing Amy! So glad we’ve had the opportunity to raise our family here.

Rolla became an engineering town before most Americans had ever seen an electric light.

In 1870, Missouri created the Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy, the institution now known as Missouri University of Science and Technology.

Missouri S&T identifies it as the first technological institution west of the Mississippi River.

The location made sense.

Missouri's mining industry needed people who understood geology, metallurgy, surveying, chemistry and the increasingly technical machinery of industrial production. The country was also embracing the land-grant idea that higher education should teach practical sciences alongside traditional academic subjects.

The first campus was wonderfully modest.

The school used the Rolla Building, where the upper floors were rented for the new college while other educational activity continued below. In November 1871, the first students included twelve boys and one girl, Clara Smith.

From that tiny beginning grew an institution associated with engineering, mining, materials, science and technology. The contrast is almost comic.
Today's laboratories deal with problems the school's founders could not have imagined. The original students were entering a world of steam engines, mines, railroads and hand-drawn technical plans.

But the underlying idea was already modern: a developing region needed people trained not only to know things, but to apply knowledge.

Missouri put that school in Rolla.

A small Ozark community became home to a technological institution before the word 'technology' meant anything like what it means today.

Rolla's location also tied education directly to Missouri's physical landscape.

Mining districts, rail construction, bridges, roads and industrial plants all demanded people who could measure, test and calculate. The school grew because the state needed technical expertise, not because anyone expected Rolla to become a fashionable college town. That practical origin still fits the place. Missouri's first technological institution west of the Mississippi began by teaching students how to solve the material problems sitting under their feet and rising around them.

08/29/2026

So excited for this locally owned new business opening very soon!

Please be sure to like, follow their page and share the exciting news!

Enjoy our authentic Phở, a beloved Vietnamese noodle soup featuring a distinctive flavor, rich broth, rice noodles, fresh herbs, and tender beef or chicken.

08/28/2026

Parking Lot Q&A.

08/23/2026

Is your floor plan more expensive than your neighbors?

08/21/2026

The best part of fall!

08/14/2026

Yay! 🥐

🇫🇷 We are so excited to be back open soon (exact date and hours TBD)🇫🇷

Find us in our new temporary home - inside the Tasting Room at Rolla Public House (600 N Rolla Street, Rolla MO 65401)📍

Sending so much gratitude to the crew Public House Brewing Company for their help and warm welcome 🫶