Hooked on Houses
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Hooked on Houses
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Combining salvaged architectural elements and radical (for her day) design concepts, architect Mary Rockwell Hook left her distinctive mark on several exceptional Kansas City homes.
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Photographs and article about area homes designed by Mary Rockwell Hook. After training at the Art Institute in Chicago and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, Hook returned to Kansas City and worked with the firm Howe, Hoit & Cutler. She designed houses for lots in the new J. C. Nichols development. In 1908 she built her first house in Kansas City, "a small bungalow at 53rd Terrace and Brookside Boulevard."
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Creator: Shackelford, Patricia
Creator: Lauder, Frank
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2011-03
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Spaces Kansas City
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Photos include one of Mary Rockwell Hook and several shots from the Kansas City Public Library's Frank Lauder Autochrome Collection (P22). See finding aid: http://localhistory.kclibrary.org/u?/Local,36850.
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MVSC Q 977.8411 S732
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This document is not available online. You may come to the Missouri Valley Room to view it or request a photocopy from the Library's Document Delivery service. http://www.kclibrary.org/copy-requests
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