A 12-minute walk away from Loose Park sits a house on the Kansas City Register of Historic Places .
Built in 1916, the Charles and Josephine Peters house, 1228 W. 55th St., is a relic of its time. The all-brick Georgian Colonial stands at the top of three landscaped and treed acres in the Sunset Hill West neighborhood.
The mansion is now on sale by Compass Realty Group and has been listed on Zillow since April 6 . The price? $5,995,000.
It was completed in 1916 for Charles Peters, the superintendent and secretary of the department store Emery, Bird, Thayer , and later remodeled in 1936 for Porter T. Hall, the president of the department store, and his wife Josephine Bird Hall, according to Jackson County national register documents . After Porter Hall’s death in 1947, ownership was transferred to his son, Joseph Bird Hall .
He then sold it to Richard and Judith King in 1981. The two eventually divorced, but remained friends before Richard’s death in 2019 . Judith lived there until she died on Nov. 28, 2023 .