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Title
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Architecture Residential
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Description
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Series of articles about different types of housing styles like Bungalow (Craftsman), Shirtwaist, Tudor, Ranch, and Queen Anne, as well as articles about old houses, researching the history of your house, etc.
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Object Type
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Vertical File
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Title
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A Good Place to Spend a Pleasant Day, Nature and the Suburban Ideal
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Description
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Article traces the history of the movement from cities to the suburbs. Mentions craftsman bungalows and Prairie-style Foursquare homes. "Both emphasized a connection between the land and the structure, [and] were extremely popular with middle-class families from the 1890s through the 1920s." Discusses developers William Strang, Donald Drummond (who built "flatties"--flat-roofed homes), and J. C. Nichols and landscape architects Hare and Hare. Includes an illustration of the subdivision of Countryside designed for the Hodges Brothers by Hare and Hare.
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Date
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2009
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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High Up, a View of History
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Description
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Article describes the lantern tower that sits atop the historic Power & Light Building, including its design details and history.
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Date
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2012-06-12
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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The Orient...in Johnson County?
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Description
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Short article with pictures of the "pink pagoda" home located at 8702 W. 49th Terrace in Merriam, Kansas. It was originally built in 1918 by local Rosedale bank owner and realtor John Sanders. The future of the bright flamingo pink house with curving upward roof eaves is uncertain.
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Date
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2008
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Object Type
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Newsletter Article
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Title
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Area Design Firm Gaining National Recognition
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Description
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Article discusses Dimensioinal Innovations of Overland Park, Kansas. The company has done "a wide variety of high-profile design tasks in the business, sports and government worlds" including the parking garage of the Kansas City Public Library's Central Library.
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Date
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2010-05-26
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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A Local Imprint on a Classic Style
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Description
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Article profiles a three-story home located within Kansas City's Coleman Highlands neighborhood built in 1909 in the shirtwaist style. The author mentions that shirtwaist homes can be found within several Kansas City neighborhoods, including: Pendleton Heights, Squire Park, Roanoke Park, Hyde Park, and Valentine, and that they were built in Kansas City from about 1900 to 1920. The style is defined as a home with a symmetrical front exterior, two or three levels, a substantial front porch, the first level being built of brick or limestone, the upper levels covered in stucco or siding, and a steeply gabled roof that sometimes flares out into overhangs on its sides.
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Date
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2014-11-09
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
