R. A. Long House, 3218 Gladstone Boulevard, Kansas City, Jackson County, MO
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
Tags
Date
1910 - 1980
Contributors
Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
Holt, Henry Ford
Higgins, George W
William Baumgartner & Company
Jandoli, Liz, transmitter
Location
Kansas City (Mo.), 39.11586, -94.54241
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html