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R. A. Long House, 3218 Gladstone Boulevard, Kansas City, Jackson County, MO

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R. A. Long House, 3218 Gladstone Boulevard, Kansas City, Jackson County, MO

description

Summary

Significance: Building is architecturally significant as a particularly grand local example of a Beaux-Arts residence. Its original owner, R.A. Long, symbolized the late-19th century ideal of coming from a poor background and rising to wealth and prestige. Long also voiced early view on forest conservation.
Survey number: HABS MO-1863
Building/structure dates: 1910 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: after 1960 Subsequent Work

date_range

Date

1910 - 1980

person

Contributors

Historic American Buildings Survey, creator

Holt, Henry Ford

Higgins, George W

William Baumgartner & Company

Jandoli, Liz, transmitter

place

Location

Kansas City (Mo.), 39.11586, -94.54241

Google Map of 39.1158588, -94.542414

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Source

Library of Congress

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Link

http://www.loc.gov/

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