This Queen Anne was built circa 1889. It was later moved one mile from it's original site in 1910 to make way for Kansas City's famed parks and boulevards system in the city's embrace of The City Beautiful Movement.

Major renovations included the removal of 1960s era ceramic sliding and the replacement of the original fish scale shake shingles it had covered. A drip cap between the 1st and 2nd floors was recreated based on archival photos. I also designed and installed a new wood-framed arch window when work on an exterior wall revealed where one had originally existed.

The kitchen was updated, floors were refinish and plaster was repaired on the interior of the house.

Neighborhood legend has the house built by a local lumber merchant as model home. Indeed, the house boasts a different species of wood in each of its main rooms. For instance, the foyer is entirely finished in oak; floor, ceiling and stairway. Even the second floor bedrooms and hallways have a beaded oak wainscot.

The house was often used for photo shoot locations and featured in multiple shelter publications.