Mack B. Nelson House

Mack B. Nelson House
Mack B. Nelson House
General information
Type	House
Location	5500 Ward Parkway; Kansas City, Missouri
Governing body	private
Design and construction
Architect	Henry F. Hoit

Last updated June 24, 2019

The Mack B. Nelson house is a historic residence located at 5500 Ward Parkway in the Sunset Hill neighborhood of the Country Club District in Kansas City, Missouri.

Country Club District Human settlement in Missouri, United States

The Country Club District is the name of a group of neighborhoods composing a historic upscale residential district in Kansas City, developed by noted real estate developer J.C. Nichols. The district was developed in stages between 1906 and 1950, and today is home to approximately 60,000 and includes such well-known Kansas City neighborhoods as Sunset Hill and Brookside in Missouri, Mission Hills, Fairway, and the oldest parts of Prairie Village in Kansas, making it the largest planned community built by a single developer in the United States. Ward Parkway, a wide, manicured boulevard, traverses the district running south from the Country Club Plaza, the first suburban shopping district in the United States.

Kansas City is the largest city in the U.S. state of Missouri. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the city had an estimated population of 491,918 in 2018, making it the 38th most-populous city in the United States. It is the central city of the Kansas City metropolitan area, which straddles the Kansas–Missouri state line. Kansas City was founded in the 1830s as a Missouri River port at its confluence with the Kansas River coming in from the west. On June 1, 1850 the town of Kansas was incorporated; shortly after came the establishment of the Kansas Territory. Confusion between the two ensued and the name Kansas City was assigned to distinguish them soon after.

History

Mack Barnabas Nelson was born in Arkansas in 1872. He came to Kansas City in 1894, where he worked for the Long-Bell Lumber Company. At the time of construction, Nelson was vice-president of the lumber company, but he later came to the top position in the company after Long suffered financial reverses early in the Great Depression. Construction took place during the same time as construction of the Bernard Corrigan House, which is located directly across 55th Street.

Arkansas is a state in the southern region of the United States, home to over 3 million people as of 2018. Its name is of Siouan derivation from the language of the Osage denoting their related kin, the Quapaw Indians. The state's diverse geography ranges from the mountainous regions of the Ozark and the Ouachita Mountains, which make up the U.S. Interior Highlands, to the densely forested land in the south known as the Arkansas Timberlands, to the eastern lowlands along the Mississippi River and the Arkansas Delta.

In 1887, Robert A. Long and Victor Bell formed the Long-Bell Lumber Company in Columbus, Kansas. The Long-Bell Lumber Company branched out using balanced vertical integration to control all aspects of lumber from the sawmills to the retail lumber yard. As the company expanded it moved further south and eventually had holdings in Arkansas, Oklahoma Indian Territory, and Louisiana, before heading west to Washington.

Great Depression 20th-century worldwide economic depression

The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place mostly during the 1930s, beginning in the United States. The timing of the Great Depression varied across nations; in most countries it started in 1929 and lasted until the late 1930s. It was the longest, deepest, and most widespread depression of the 20th century. In the 21st century, the Great Depression is commonly used as an example of how intensely the world's economy can decline.

Architecture

Built in 1914, the house is a large 14,661-square-foot (1,362.1 m²) rectangle built around an interior atrium, which is lit by movable skylight. It houses 16 bedrooms, 8 bathrooms, a swimming pool with pool house and a basketball court.

The architect was Henry F. Hoit who also designed the R. A. Long residence which is now the Kansas City Museum.

Henry F. Hoit was a well known Kansas City, Missouri architect in the early 20th century. He and his partners designed many of Kansas City's most iconic commercial and residential buildings including the Kansas City Power and Light Building and the R.A. Long residence.

The Kansas City Museum is a museum located in Kansas City, Missouri, United States. Housed in a historic 1910 Beaux-Arts style mansion and private estate of lumber baron and civic leader Robert A. Long, the Kansas City Museum became a public museum in 1940. Seventy-five years later, the Museum is under extensive renovation.

Coordinates: 39°01′40″N94°36′16″W / 39.0278°N 94.6044°W / 39.0278; -94.6044

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v t e Historic Houses of Kansas City, Missouri
Country Club District:	Bernard Corrigan House Bertrand Rockwell House Charles S. Keith House Emily Rockwell Love House Floyd Jacobs House George E. Nicholson House House at 5011 Sunset Drive Mack B. Nelson House Mary Rockwell Hook House Michael H. and Rose Katz House Pink House Robert Ostertag House Seth E. Ward Homestead Tom Pendergast House Epperson House
Morningside:	Wornall House
Paseo West:	Dr. Generous Henderson House
Pendleton Heights:	Corinthian Hall Wallace Castle William Chick Scarritt House
Roanoke:	Clarence Sondern House Norman Tromanhauser House Thomas Hart Benton House
Southmoreland:	Mineral Hall
Ward Parkway:	Alexander Majors House