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Photo, Print, Drawing William Allen White House, Mother's House, 923 North Exchange Street, Emporia, Lyon County, KS

[ Drawings from Survey HABS KS-81-B  ]

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[ Data Pages from Survey HABS KS-81-B  ]

About this Item

Title

  • William Allen White House, Mother's House, 923 North Exchange Street, Emporia, Lyon County, KS

Names

  • Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
  • Kansas State Historical Society
  • White, Mary Ann Hatten
  • Utz, Steven B., project manager
  • Kansas State Historical Society, sponsor
  • Davidson, Lisa Pfueller, transmitter
  • Leibowitz, Rachel, historian
  • Gunderson, Courtney L., delineator
  • Lenard, Marton, delineator
  • Klein, Frederick A., delineator
  • Utz, Steven B., delineator
  • Arzola, Robert R., project manager

Created / Published

  • Documentation compiled after 1933

Headings

  • -  foursquare houses
  • -  brick buildings
  • -  domestic life
  • -  building deterioration
  • -  Kansas--Lyon County--Emporia

Notes

  • -  Significance: This was the home of Mary Ann Hatten White, the mother of William Allen White, from ca. 1904 until her death in 1924. Her son was nationally known and revered as the editor of the Emporia Gazette, a frequent contributor to popular journals such as McClure's, Harper's Weekly, and Saturday Evening Post and an influential political advisor. Mary Ann Hatten White's house forms part of the William Allen White House site which also included the main house (Red Rocks) and a garage on four adjoining town lots unified by a terraced garden. The Mother's House is of the foursquare type, which was very common throughout the Middle West in the first two decades of the twentieth century, but its exterior is made more elaborate by the use of polychrome brick and limestone window lintels and sills - a rather expensive and perhaps somewhat urban treatment for an otherwise ordinary folk house type in a small town.
  • -  Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N848
  • -  Survey number: HABS KS-81-B
  • -  Building/structure dates: ca. 1904 Initial Construction
  • -  National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 71000318

Medium

  • Measured Drawing(s): 6
  • Data Page(s): 20

Call Number/Physical Location

  • HABS KS-81-B

Source Collection

  • Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress)

Repository

Control Number

  • ks0205

Rights Advisory

Online Format

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Chicago citation style:

Historic American Buildings Survey, Creator, Kansas State Historical Society, Mary Ann Hatten White, Steven B Utz, Sponsor Kansas State Historical Society, Rachel Leibowitz, Courtney L Gunderson, et al. William Allen White House, Mother's House, 923 North Exchange Street, Emporia, Lyon County, KS. Kansas Emporia Lyon County, 1933. translateds by Davidson, Lisa Pfuellermitter Documentation Compiled After. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/ks0205/.

APA citation style:

Historic American Buildings Survey, C., Kansas State Historical Society, White, M. A. H., Utz, S. B., Kansas State Historical Society, S., Leibowitz, R. [...] Arzola, R. R. (1933) William Allen White House, Mother's House, 923 North Exchange Street, Emporia, Lyon County, KS. Kansas Emporia Lyon County, 1933. Davidson, L. P., trans Documentation Compiled After. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/ks0205/.

MLA citation style:

Historic American Buildings Survey, Creator, et al. William Allen White House, Mother's House, 923 North Exchange Street, Emporia, Lyon County, KS. trans by Davidson, Lisa Pfuellermitter Documentation Compiled After. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/ks0205/>.