I think anyone that grew up in KCK was fascinated with this house (if they were like me!).  We'd pass it while on the way to Grandma's house, which was in DeSoto, KS and the fact that it was so huge and those statues on the sides of the front porch pillars lent many an hour of mystery and wonderment......I always wished I was related to the people "with the cool house", because you just knew there was mystery and ancestry tales that abounded......not to mention (you hoped) an old attic full of forgotten treasures!!!  It's so nice to know who the home belonged to.  If it weren't for John suggesting the Mailing List email, no telling how many more years would go by and I would still wonder about this great piece of architecture!!!  Thanks to everyone!   Melissa Blackman Kansas City, KS --- On Thu, 1/8/09, John O'Brien <JohnOBrien@kc.rr.com> wrote: From: John O'Brien <JohnOBrien@kc.rr.com> Subject: Re: [Wyandotte County] Brown homstead To: kswyando@rootsweb.com Date: Thursday, January 8, 2009, 11:18 AM Thanks Diane, Google Maps takes you right there using that address. Has the street view too. John ----- Original Message ----- From: "Diane Treff" <dianetreff@sunflower.com> To: <kswyando@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 8:56 AM Subject: Re: [Wyandotte County] Brown homstead > The Kansas City Kansas Architecture foundation printed a book in a joint > venture with the Kansas City Kansas School Board some years back titled A > GIFT to the Future and the home was in that book. The address given in the > book was 12448 Parallel Parkway Today it's a little run down but still an > awesome contribution to my community. Diane "In retrospect, it seems a > bit > surprising that such a substaintial design was employed for a farm house > in > western Wyandotte County, but even here the tradition of the "gentleman > farmer" was not unknown." > > -----Original Message----- > From: kswyando-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:kswyando-bounces@rootsweb.com] > On Behalf Of ca07@finneycounty.org > Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 12:58 PM > To: kswyando@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [Wyandotte County] Brown homstead > > John, > > I don't know the exact address, just how to get there. > > Lara > > > > > "John O'Brien" <JohnOBrien@kc.rr.com> > Sent by: kswyando-bounces@rootsweb.com > 01/07/2009 12:01 PM > Please respond to > kswyando@rootsweb.com > > > To > <kswyando@rootsweb.com> > cc > > Subject > [Wyandotte County] Brown homstead > > > > > > > Lara - Deane, > > Do you know the address of the home. We might be able to see it on Google > > Maps Street view. > > thanks, John > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <ca07@finneycounty.org> > To: <kswyando@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 9:00 AM > Subject: Re: [Wyandotte County] Wyandotte County Mailing List > > >> Diane: >> >> Yes, we have corresponded before. Thank you so much. I hadn't seen you >> post anything recently, so I wasn't sure if you were still on the list >> serve or not. I'm glad to hear the home is on the historical registry >> now. I agree that it needs to be taken better care of, my mom and I > would >> like to take a can of white paint over to have the owner paint the > pillars >> (which actually were originally brick, not the wooden columns you see >> today). Nancy and Susie were my great aunts, Susie just passed away a > few >> years ago. We were glad that she wasn't "with it" enough to know that > she >> out-lived my grandpa. >> >> Thanks again! >> >> Lara Blake Bors >> Asst. Finney County Attorney >> 409 N. 9th Street >> Garden City, KS 67846 >> >> 620-272-3568 >> >> >> >> "Diane Treff" <dianetreff@sunflower.com> >> Sent by: kswyando-bounces@rootsweb.com >> 01/07/2009 08:34 AM >> Please respond to >> kswyando@rootsweb.com >> >> >> To >> <kswyando@rootsweb.com> >> cc >> >> Subject >> Re: [Wyandotte County] Wyandotte County Mailing List >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Lara: >> >> Not sure if we corresponded before or not. I do know a little about > your >> family. Primarily the Brown's as Wash Brown and my husband's > grandparents >> were very good friends. They all attened Piper High School and > graduated >> in >> the 1920's. I believe there was a nancy and a Susie Brown as well. Yes >> the >> house still stands. I have been told it is listed with Kansas as a >> Historical landmark. I wish the current owners would do more to restore >> its >> beauty. In the 1970's I worked for a very short time as a secretary for >> Blake, Uhlig & Funk in Kansas City, Ks. My girlfriend got me on and I >> truly >> wasn't ready for the job. However, they were fun to work for and at > that >> time Wash Brown still had his office at the Brotherhood building in KCK > as >> well. As I research I will send to you any and all I find. Iwill be > away >> from genealogy for a couple of weeks, but when I get back to it I will >> check >> my PIPEr and WYCO files. I know that I kept some tidbits that may be of >> interest to you. >> >> Diane Treff >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: kswyando-bounces@rootsweb.com > [mailto:kswyando-bounces@rootsweb.com] >> On Behalf Of ca07@finneycounty.org >> Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 8:24 AM >> To: kswyando@rootsweb.com >> Subject: Re: [Wyandotte County] Wyandotte County Mailing List >> >> Hello! >> >> I'm currently living in Garden City, Finney County, Kansas -- our most >> notorious claim to fame are the Clutter murders (Capote's In Cold > Blood), >> and some beef packing plants. >> >> My family since my maternal great great great grandfather, Washington >> Brown, has lived in Wyandotte County. He homesteaded in Piper after > the >> civil war and the home is still standing. Both maternal and paternal >> sides lived in Wyandotte County until my parents moved to Johnson County >> in 1960, but my father, John Blake, Jr., and grandfathers, John Blake > and >> Wash Brown, practiced law in Wyandotte County. My dad graduated from >> Argentine High School and my mom (Denise Brown) and maternal aunt >> graduated from Wyandotte. >> >> I'm hoping to get tidbits about the Blakes, Hankins (paternal >> grandmother), Tolers (maternal grandmother), and Browns. I don't know >> much about the Blakes or the Hankinses. >> >> It's been wonderful connecting with a few people on the list and getting >> information about the old homestead and hearing from people who knew my >> family. It's also great to read some of the news articles that you put >> on, John. Thank you so much for that! >> >> Have a wonderful day!! >> >> Lara (Blake) Bors >> >> > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > KSWYANDO-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > KSWYANDO-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > KSWYANDO-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to KSWYANDO-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Melissa, thank you for your message. I enjoy reading memories like this and I invite others on the List to share their growing-up memories with the List when a posting jogs their memory of an earlier time! John Kansas City, North (just south of Gladstone) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Melissa Blackman" <roseladym@yahoo.com> To: <kswyando@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 4:22 PM Subject: Re: [Wyandotte County] Brown homstead I think anyone that grew up in KCK was fascinated with this house (if they were like me!). We'd pass it while on the way to Grandma's house, which was in DeSoto, KS and the fact that it was so huge and those statues on the sides of the front porch pillars lent many an hour of mystery and wonderment......I always wished I was related to the people "with the cool house", because you just knew there was mystery and ancestry tales that abounded......not to mention (you hoped) an old attic full of forgotten treasures!!! It's so nice to know who the home belonged to. If it weren't for John suggesting the Mailing List email, no telling how many more years would go by and I would still wonder about this great piece of architecture!!! Thanks to everyone! Melissa Blackman Kansas City, KS --- On Thu, 1/8/09, John O'Brien <JohnOBrien@kc.rr.com> wrote: From: John O'Brien <JohnOBrien@kc.rr.com> Subject: Re: [Wyandotte County] Brown homstead To: kswyando@rootsweb.com Date: Thursday, January 8, 2009, 11:18 AM Thanks Diane, Google Maps takes you right there using that address. Has the street view too. John ----- Original Message ----- From: "Diane Treff" <dianetreff@sunflower.com> To: <kswyando@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 8:56 AM Subject: Re: [Wyandotte County] Brown homstead > The Kansas City Kansas Architecture foundation printed a book in a joint > venture with the Kansas City Kansas School Board some years back titled A > GIFT to the Future and the home was in that book. The address given in the > book was 12448 Parallel Parkway Today it's a little run down but still an > awesome contribution to my community. Diane "In retrospect, it seems a > bit > surprising that such a substaintial design was employed for a farm house > in > western Wyandotte County, but even here the tradition of the "gentleman > farmer" was not unknown." > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <ca07@finneycounty.org> > To: <kswyando@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 9:00 AM > Subject: Re: [Wyandotte County] Wyandotte County Mailing List > > >> Diane: >> >> Yes, we have corresponded before. Thank you so much. I hadn't seen you >> post anything recently, so I wasn't sure if you were still on the list >> serve or not. I'm glad to hear the home is on the historical registry >> now. I agree that it needs to be taken better care of, my mom and I > would >> like to take a can of white paint over to have the owner paint the > pillars >> (which actually were originally brick, not the wooden columns you see >> today). Nancy and Susie were my great aunts, Susie just passed away a > few >> years ago. We were glad that she wasn't "with it" enough to know that > she >> out-lived my grandpa. >> >> Thanks again! >> >> Lara Blake Bors >> >> >> >> "Diane Treff" <dianetreff@sunflower.com> >> Sent by: kswyando-bounces@rootsweb.com >> 01/07/2009 08:34 AM >> Please respond to >> kswyando@rootsweb.com >> >> >> To >> <kswyando@rootsweb.com> >> cc >> >> Subject >> Re: [Wyandotte County] Wyandotte County Mailing List >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Lara: >> >> Not sure if we corresponded before or not. I do know a little about > your >> family. Primarily the Brown's as Wash Brown and my husband's > grandparents >> were very good friends. They all attened Piper High School and > graduated >> in >> the 1920's. I believe there was a nancy and a Susie Brown as well. Yes >> the >> house still stands. I have been told it is listed with Kansas as a >> Historical landmark. I wish the current owners would do more to restore >> its >> beauty. In the 1970's I worked for a very short time as a secretary for >> Blake, Uhlig & Funk in Kansas City, Ks. My girlfriend got me on and I >> truly >> wasn't ready for the job. However, they were fun to work for and at > that >> time Wash Brown still had his office at the Brotherhood building in KCK > as >> well. As I research I will send to you any and all I find. Iwill be > away >> from genealogy for a couple of weeks, but when I get back to it I will >> check >> my PIPEr and WYCO files. I know that I kept some tidbits that may be of >> interest to you. >> >> Diane Treff >>