1704 Jefferson St
Kansas City, MO, USA

National Register of Historic Places - Joseph Grear Peppard House

Statement of Significance:

The J. G. Peppard residence at 1704 Jefferson is significant for architectural and historical reasons. Built in 1887, the stately Queen Anne residence stands today as one of the few remaining architects designed homes in the historic Mulkey Square neighborhood on Kansas City's West Side. The residence anchors the northern end of Jefferson Street, an enclave of large, high-styled homes commissioned by prominent citizens during the last 30 years of the nineteenth century. Although at one time, pattern book cottages and fashionable homes lined the streets of Mulkey Square, recent highway construction has leveled the majority of finer homes once located in the central western section of the district. Those few significant structures still intact on the eastern edge of the neighborhood along Jefferson Street are now all that is left of the grand architect designed homes. A fine example of late Victorian architecture, 1704 Jefferson is typical of the imposing residences on this street and of its era. It was built for Mr. Joseph Grear Peppard, a wealthy and enterprising seed merchant. The business he started in 1884, J. G. Peppard Seed Company was operated by his sons until it was sold in the mid-1950s. The original ware- houses were located at 8th and Santa Fe streets.