3242 Norledge Renovation Update 6

Bishop Eugene Hendrix and his wife Annie Elizabeth Scarritt built this home in 1887.  This is a brief                                         

                  update of the ongoing work to renovate the home.  Just the first floor is shown. 

Here's a link to the first post on the home:  years-in-https://hyperblogal.blogspot.com/2021/04/a-story-134-years-in-making.html

                                 Drywall is finished, along with some painting.  Trim is installed. 

Above, this was originally Bishop Hendrix Office/Study.  Below, original staircase. 

                       Above, living room.  Two below kitchen cabinet installation underway. 

                                               Above, tile finished in one of the bathrooms. 

                                                        Above and below, patio/deck finished. 

 

Update On The Bishop Hendrix Home ( Annie Scarritt )

Bishop Hendrix/Annie Scarritt Hendrix home... 1887.  Under renovation.  Plumbing and electrical should be completed this month and then drywall installation will start.  Below the new garage going up. 

Below working on the new porch railing for the second floor/front balcony. 

Above, the false ceiling on the front porch has been removed and the brickwork behind it is being repaired.  

The following shots show the electrical work and plumbing that has already been done. 

                 Above the floor to ceiling window can be opened for access to the porch outside. 

New windows on the third floor. 

                                     Tower room got new windows too. 

Preparing to install the first new railing on the second floor. 

The view from the porch.  Skyline and the front of William Chick Scarritt's house.  KC Museum is on the left. 
 

Victorian Sparkles Anew

The new owner of 500 Bellefontaine Avenue in Historic Northeast has completed its renovation.

The Victorian, built in 1890, was showing its 128 years when purchased, but is now ready to shine. 

For more on the Bellefontaine Avenue Historic District:   https://hyperblogal.blogspot.com/2018/07/bellefontaine-avenue-historic-district.html

 The home, above, in 1940.

 The home, in the Bellefontaine Historic District, was platted in the Richmond Place Subdividion.

The first residents were Dr. George A. and Mary Dean.  He was in the private practice of Homeopathy. 

At some point after 1900, the home was made a duplex-upstairs/downstairs.  There were many who lived there through the years.

Dr. William and Virginia Coffey (he was elected Jackson County Coroner)

William T. Holt

Robert H. Seymour

Mary Hathaway (teacher at Rollins School)

Frederic and Laura Teschemacher

Joe and Nancy Ficcadenti  (Barber 2323 1/2 Independence Avenue)

Pasquale Amendola

The Azzaro family

See the last image below for the story of a dust-up between doctors, Flavel Tiffany and William 

Coffey. 

Dr. and Mrs. Coffey

 All of the woodwork is original 

 The removal of a wall allowed for a larger, modern kitchen. 

Home office. 

 The second floor, formerly an apartment. 

 Two car garage is a new addition. 

 When many of the mansions and other buildings were being torn down in the 30s and 40s along Independence Blvd., the bricks were taken down by the river and put in large piles.  The Azzaro family retrieved many of them to make the patio and driveway above.