Woodneath
Kansas City, United States
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Visible from the street; the inside is private.
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Woodneath, also known as the Elbridge Arnold Homestead, is a historic brick farmhouse in Kansas City, Missouri, built in the Greek Revival style and among the oldest antebellum structures in the city. Occupied by the Arnold, Moore, and Crouch families from 1855 through the late 1970s, the house takes its name from the oak, pine, and sugar maples that once dominated its wooded grounds—many of which remain today. The farmhouse and its surrounding property exemplify the agrarian lifestyle of mid-nineteenth-century Clay County, Missouri. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978, Woodneath was purchased by the Mid-Continent Public Library in 2008 along with 33 acres. A new library branch was constructed adjacent to and attached to the historic home in 2013, with plans to repurpose the farmhouse as the Woodneath Story Center.
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- Type
- farmhouse
- Heritage
- National Register of Historic Places listed place
- Place
- Kansas City, United States
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