Houses of Missouri Book Signing

When: Friday, Nov. 28, from 11 a.m. - 1 p.m.

Where: Station Master Store at Union Station Kansas City

Admission: Free

Opulence and beauty of Missouri’s most historic houses are captured in the book Houses of Missouri: 1870-1940. Join the Museum and co-author Cydney Millstein during a book signing Nov. 28 in front of the Station Master at Union Station.

With nearly 300 archival photographs, drawings and original floor plans, Houses of Missouri, 1870-1940, offers an intimate tour behind the facades of 45 purely American houses. Among these are Greystone, the pastoral Gothic cottage of Major Emory Foster in Pevely; Oak Hall, the opulent mansion of the legendary Kansas City Star publisher William Rockhill Nelson; the iconoclastic “machine in the prairie,” Samuel Marx-designed Ladue residence for department store magnate Morton May; and Chatol, the string Art Moderne “farmhouse” in rural Boone County.

The book also features Corinthian Hall, the home of legendary Kansas City lumber baron and philanthropist Robert A. Long, which is now Kansas City Museum at Corinthian Hall.

The authors, Cydney Millstein and Carol Grove, bring to life the fortunes, motivations and aspirations of the wealthy and upstanding house owners who rigorously defined what was “suitable” and respectable living in America’s heartland.

The book costs $60 and can be purchased in the Kansas City Museum at Corinthian Hall Visitor Center.

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