My Pick of the Week is a home in Fonticello Gardens, a subdivision located off 69th Street, just west of Roe Ave in Prairie Village. What an incredible little jewel in Prairie Village and greater Kansas City. While colonial style homes abound, there is nothing quite like this authentic cluster of brick colonials. It appears the development began in 1956 and the architect may have been a woman by the name of Garland T. Bowers, though I cannot find any record of her. My pick of the week is a spacious, traditional, well-built home, and, though it is not brand new, I think its size and features would please many new-home buyers as well as those looking for the quality and charm of years past. This one will be gone before we know it.
I know for sure the architect is Garland Bowers. My husband & I looked at the house when it was for sale in the 80s, after which time Mrs. Bowers and I became great friends – I’d graduated from KCAI and she’d taught Art there years earlier. She’d give me “quizzes” on the proper way to mix certain pigments. With her permission and enthusiasm, I attempted to get the main house on the Historic Register–it’s an exact replica of the oldest house in Williamsburg. A family member told us she climbed all over the original Williamsburg house measuring, came back, drew up plans, bought the land just before J. C. Nichols bought the rest of P.V. She told me she researched builders who would meet her exacting standards, found one and they began building. There are many details I can tell you, if you like. I’ve loved the house for 35 years. All I want for the rest of my life is to live in that house. MMS
Cool house I’ve been to Williamsburg several times I think I’ve been buy this house I have your Plate Paul