Houses and mansions in Kansas City
This tour visits places the Register records as dwellings, among them single houses, rowhouses and mansions. Many are private homes and the stops are meant to be seen from the sidewalk. More of the Kansas City register is houses than any other kind of building, 55 listings of it in all.
13 stops, 1.4 miles end to end.
Distances are straight lines between the coordinates in the National Park Service Register data, so the walk on the street will be longer. Nobody has walked or checked this as a route, and a listing does not mean a place is open to visitors. Stops last changed Oct 16, 2026.
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Map
Coordinates come from the National Park Service National Register spatial data, or from Wikidata where the spatial data has no point. The solid line joins the stops in walking order and is not a street route. Listings with a restricted address in the Register are never mapped and never become stops. Data refreshed November 02, 2026.
Walking order
- 1Mary Rockwell Hook House4940 Summit St.Building · listed 1983start
- 2House at 54 E. 53rd Terrace54 E. 53rd Terr.Building · listed 1983117 ft from stop 1
- 3Pink House5012 Summit St.Building · listed 1983148 ft from stop 2
- 4Robert Ostertag House5030 Summit St.Building · listed 1983234 ft from stop 3
- 5Emily Rockwell Love House5029 Sunset Dr.Building · listed 1983269 ft from stop 4
- 6Jacobs Floyd House5050 Sunset Dr.Building · listed 1983279 ft from stop 5
- 7Bertrand Rockwell House1004 W. 52nd St.Building · listed 19830.2 mi from stop 6
- 8Charles S. Keith House1214 W. 55th ST.Building · listed 20000.4 mi from stop 7
- 9Charles A. Braley House3 Dunford Cir.Building · listed 2013475 ft from stop 8
- 10Charles and Josephine Peters House1228 W. 55th St.Building · listed 20160.2 mi from stop 9
- 11Hunter Gary House1228 W. 56th St.Building · listed 20080.2 mi from stop 10
- 12Bernard Corrigan House1200 W. 55th St.Building · listed 19780.1 mi from stop 11
- 13R. Bryson Jones House1045 W. 56th St.Building · listed 20090.1 mi from stop 12
1.4 straight-line miles over 12 legs.
Taking it along
- Download the route as GPXFor a handheld GPS or a phone app
- Open all 13 stops in Google MapsSet the mode to walking once it opens
- Open the first stop in Apple MapsThe Apple Maps web link carries one destination, so this is stop 1 only
Other walks in Kansas City
- Banks and business blocks in Kansas City14 stops · 1.5 milesThe route links commercial buildings built between 1921 and 1973. Most were built to hold shops at street level and offices above.
- Apartments and hotels in Kansas City10 stops · 2.2 milesThe route links the apartment buildings and hotels the register carries in Kansas City. Some still take guests and some have become housing.
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