940 W. 33rd Terrace
930 W. 33rd Terrace
940 W. 33rd Terrace |
930 W. 33rd Terrace |
33rd Terrace was originally named Fulton Street and had some of the earliest houses in the neighborhood. The houses at 926, 930 and 940 W. 33rd Terrace are of a local style known as the Kansas City Shirtwaist. The Shirtwaist is a local variation of the Prairie School style, that includes a full front porch and wide eaves. These houses typically have a four-square room plan, with four rooms on the first story and four rooms on the second story. This style is named after shirtwaist dresses that were popular at the turn of the century. Each story usually has a different application of building materials, creating a “collar,” “bodice” and “skirt” for the house.
These three houses were built in different years—926 in 1909, 930 in 1913 and 934 in 1912—but it is easy to see similarities among them. Each is 2½ stories tall, has a gable-front façade, a bay window on the east side of the first story and a mid-level bay on the west side, probably to accommodate a stairway. Each also has clapboard siding on the second story, a gable-front full porch and an asymmetrical façade with the entry door on the west side of the porch. Each house contains personalized details, such as the materials chosen for the first story, the shape and placement of dormers on the third story and the application of architectural details.