Kansas City Architecture - Houses

One of the things that I enjoyed most about Kansas City, other than the fountains, sculpture and people, was the diversity of housing architecture.

This was always a favorite house - the stone castle house in the Valentine. It represents the unusual limestone architecture of the city that doesn't seem to exist in such abundance in other cities.

A visiting relative once commented to me that her favorite part of Kansas City wasn't the obvious things. She had never seen stone used on houses to such impact before. She really fell in love with the old stone houses.

Sadly, the builders don't make houses like these anymore. It is cheaper and easier to put faux stone on exteriors than build houses with such substance and presence.

But in the older neighborhoods, a man's house can still be his castle.