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What style home is this?

7 years ago
last modified: 7 years ago

We are interested in this home and while we think that it’s a Tudor we’re not quite sure because it doesn’t have the traditional wood that’s associated with them, can anyone help? It was built in 1938 has some of the traditional arches inside but also has the older pink and black bathrooms House


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  • 7 years ago
    last modified: 7 years ago

    That's a lady Tudor, no doubt about it. :-D

    Check out her steep, cross gable roof. Her arches. Her front-facing chimney and cute little chimney pots. Is that an arched board-and-batten front door I see?

    Soooo pretty.

    (I'd toss the palm trees/large ferns out front, though, and replace them with boxwood topiaries or roses or nothing at all. The palms/ferns just don't go with the house, lol.)

    All of that was before I even looked at the link... Definitely a Tudor!!! I wish we had more of those in my neck of the woods. <3

    chandranh thanked One Devoted Dame
  • 7 years ago

    Tudorish

    chandranh thanked emmarene9
  • 7 years ago
    last modified: 7 years ago

    Tudor Revival is the style.

    Tudor Revival Characteristics

    • 1 - 2+ stories
    • Asymmetrical
    • Overhanging second floors
    • Cross-gabled, steeply pitched roof, sometimes with clipped gables
    • Arrangements of tall, narrow multi-light windows in bands; often casements and occasionally diamond-paned
    • Over-scaled chimneys with decorative brick or stone work and chimney pots
    • Clinker brick and decorative brickwork may be used
    • Doors may be half-round or arched with decorative hardware
    • Siding commonly seen includes stucco, shingle, and lapped
    • Decorative half-timbering sometimes with brick infill

    https://www.oldhouseonline.com/house-tours/tudor-revival-style



    Your bathroom w/the pink/black tile was very popular back in the 30's and the Art Deco style of decor.

    chandranh thanked Beth H. :
  • 7 years ago
    English cottage / storybook cottage style.
    chandranh thanked lynartist
  • PRO
    7 years ago
    More Storybook Tudor but lacks a few classic features. Cute place with a lot of potential!
    chandranh thanked Flo Mangan
  • 7 years ago
    My father would have referred to that as a bastard Tudor.
  • 7 years ago

    Storybook Tudor. Part of the longish arc of Tudor Revival and owes a little something,something to Disney. Snow White came out in 1937. Adorable house with a lot of potential.

    chandranh thanked hollybar
  • 7 years ago

    Thanks everyone. It needs a little work done but has been very well maintained and we love it. Kansas City on the Missouri side has entire neighborhoods of Tudors. I will be back after we close to get more advice. I’m in live with the bathroom and have apparently developed an affinity for wallpaper.

  • PRO
    7 years ago
    Here is recent Houzzer’s vintage bath redo. Great use of wallpaper!
  • PRO
    7 years ago
    Cute similar places.
  • PRO
    7 years ago

    It's charming, and the price is crazy--$195,000????? In my neighborhood it would sell for about $700,000.

  • 7 years ago

    Chandrah, is that where Bargain Mansions is filmed (DIY network)? It a girl who restores all of those old homes i Kansas City, MO. (Those homes are beautiful in that city! Beautiful old homes she gets for next to nothing! ) Her name is Tamara Day. Catch her name and show to see what she does. She has an appreciation for the original details, but modernizes w/beautiful choices. Maybe catch her around time redoing something!

    https://www.diynetwork.com/shows/bargain-mansions

  • 7 years ago

    ADORABLE

  • 7 years ago

    I'd love to live in it.

  • 7 years ago

    Looks like a nice house but having been in a couple along 75th street on the Missouri side for me the bedrooms/upstairs rooms are very cramped. You do receive larger houses north of County Line road.

    I think I recognize the DIY house and it is in the Old Northeast area along Gladstone Blvd. Very nice houses but very hard to sell because of the area just south St John where I used to live.

  • PRO
    7 years ago

    We used to call these "pseuder-Tudor"! It's a darling house, but what is the neighborhood like? I was born in KC and lived there until I was 8 and visited often until I was 19. I remember the Argentine being a pretty dicey neighborhood and this is nearby. But I'm sure it has all changed tremendously since I was there!!!

  • 7 years ago

    Anglo still the same. However if you have family in the neighborhood and it is known you are fine. OP did not comment on this part.

  • 7 years ago

    Cute house. The star on the chimney is odd.

  • 7 years ago
    last modified: 7 years ago

    The house is in rosedale, near Merriam lane/ blvd drive in. I think Argentine is on the other side of 169. With young people trying to get closer to the city, Roeland Park, rosedale, strawberry hill are experiencing high prices and tight inventory as areas begin to gentrify and existing homes are being listed as tear downs. (as are parts of troost where the streetcar is heading). Very stable neighborhood, only 5% non_single family homes, one of the lowest crime rates in Wyandotte county, and just minutes to downtown, the plaza

  • 7 years ago

    The star on the chimney looks like it belongs in Texas.

  • 7 years ago

    Will have to look at the latest streetcar route as the last I saw was going to parallel the old street car tracks down Main not Troost. Eventually will go down Troost. Argentine is currently listed between 635 and 69. From tracks to county line. Old timers considered a larger area as being Argentine.

  • 7 years ago

    She's a charmer. But that star definitely has to go - what were they thinking?

  • 7 years ago

    Many of this style and age around town have similar things stuck on the chimney. Was a style thing for a while. The other one you will see what looks like a dome or circle with the center filled in. If you are ever in town check out the ones similar to this on east/west streets south of 71st west of Ward Parkway.

  • 7 years ago

    Its a very nice looking house. Lucky you. The only thing I would change in the front are those palm tree like things.

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