Deck The Halls

This home was built in 1902 for Edward A. Stevens a Kansas City lawyer who dabbled in real estate. The entire cost was $25,000 including the land which was purchased from the Nathan Scarritt family it is almost 8,000 square feet in size. Jeff Zumsteg and J. Grant Linville are the current owners and are continuing the restoration of this beauty .  Each Christmas it is decorated top to bottom.   This Colonial Revival is across the street from the Kansas City Museum . It contains seven bedrooms, three and a half                       baths, eight fireplaces and a ballroom on the third floor. 

 

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. 

 

Backyard Photography - Japanese Maple

The trees have been extraordinary this year. 

 

Elmwood In Autumn

                                        Elmwood Cemetery looking South from behind the chapel.  

        Elmwood Cemetery, first burial 1872, is located at Truman Road and Van Brunt Boulevard. 

Above, bronze doors on a mausoleum.  Glass shows reflections of the surroundings, except for upper  

                right  which is partly a reflection and partly the stained glass window that is inside. 

Top, the chapel.  Bottom and following, the saddest markers are those of the children who died in 

                        infancy.  All of these were placed at the turn of the last century.