Above is the Edward A. Stevens Home constructed in 1902.
The current owners, Jeff Zumsteg and Jeff Linville, have just completed the last project within the walls of this gem... a Speakeasy and a Billiards Room in the basement.
To see the rest of the home check out my earlier post below.
Above and below the hallway at the foot of the stairs...this area was originally the Maid's quarters. Door to the speakeasy is top...note the official peephole in the door.
Above, the maid's bathroom... now modernized. Below, the Billiards Room. Table from the 1800s, a cattleman theme as William Stevens (the son) was in the cattle business here in KC. The other child in the family was Eileen. Eileen married T.M. James, the famous purveyor of fine china in Kansas City up to the 1960s.
Below, William in the center with pictures of the stockyards, the building of the Hannibal Bridge, and Missouri River flooding by Union Station in the West Bottoms.
Authentic tin ceiling, booth in the corner came from the Phillips Hotel, and the table in front of it from the Muehlebach Hotel. Below, more pictures and the "secret" entrance into the Speakeasy.
Above and below, the Speakeasy...entrance granted only upon visual identification.
Very cozy.
Above, when the Stevens' daughter, Eileen, went to England on her honeymoon, she purchased china to bring home. The wine cabinet above is made from the chest that her china came back to
Kansas City in.
Above, advance and be recognized.
