Floyd Jacobs House Explained

Floyd Jacobs House
Coordinates:39.0361°N -94.5981°W
Built:1925
Added:September 8, 1983
Area:less than one acre
Refnum:83001003

The Floyd Jacobs House is a historic home located in Kansas City, Missouri. It was designed by architect Mary Rockwell Hook and built in 1925 in Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals, and other architectural styles. The house was designed to demonstrate the value of hillside lots in its development. It is a three-story, hip roofed dwelling faced in rubble stone and stucco. The design had to accommodate slope and frontage on two streets at different levels. It became home to Floyd Jacobs, a lawyer.[1]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Residential Structures by Mary Rockwell Hook TR. 2017-03-01. Sherry Piland, Elaine Ryder, and James M. Denny. PDF. June 1983. Missouri Department of Natural Resources.