Description- Explores the development of Kansas City\'s affluent residential districts beginning with Quality Hill in the 1850s, through the boom years of the 1920s, including the Sunset Hill and Mission Hills districts - 40 houses are profiled in detail, including floor plans, architectural drawings, and photographs of interior architectural elements - Newly commissioned photographs by noted local photographer Bruce Mathews - Appendices include architects\' biographies and a selected catalog of 60 additional houses represented by one exterior view and a caption listing original owner, architect, and date completed This long overdue study documents the rich heritage of Kansas City residential architecture, signifying the importance of this booming midwestern metropolis between 1880 and 1930.
His previous publications include American Splendor: The Residential Architecture of Horace Trumbauer (Acanthus Press, 2002, revised 2012), The Great Houses of New York: 1880-1930 (Acanthus Press, 2005, re.
Kathrens is an independent scholar specializing in American residential architecture and interior decoration of the mid nineteenth through the early twentieth centuries.
About the author Michael C.
Most of these houses were designed in the European and American revival styles prevalent during this period, yet each is distinguished by a midwestern sensibility.
Curtiss, the firm of George Brown Post in collaboration with Kansas City based architect Roger Gilman (Dean of RISD 1919-1929), and Mary Rockwell Hook, one of the first women to study at the cole des Beaux Arts in Paris.
Hoit, Louis S.
Tanner, Henry F.
Among the noted architects profiled are Edward W.
Bixby of Kansas City Life Insurance.
Winters; and Walter E.
Long; oilman Ernest C.
Meyer; lumber baron Robert A.
The forty houses within this book were erected by the city\'s leading plutocrats, such as newspaper publisher William Rockhill Nelson, whose fortune helped establish the Nelson-Atkins Museum; minerals magnate August R.
Description- Explores the development of Kansas City\'s affluent residential districts beginning with Quality Hill in the 1850s, through the boom years of the 1920s, including the Sunset Hill and Mission Hills districts - 40 houses are profiled in detail, including floor plans, architectural drawings, and photographs of interior architectural elements - Newly commissioned photographs by noted local photographer Bruce Mathews - Appendices include architects\' biographies and a selected catalog of 60 additional houses represented by one exterior view and a caption listing original owner, architect, and date completed This long overdue study documents the rich heritage of Kansas City residential architecture, signifying the importance of this booming midwestern metropolis between 1880 and 1930
