Purchase Price $145,900
4 bed · 2 bath · 2,100 sqft
Large 4 bedroom, 2 bath home with a 2 car detached garage, workshop, and private parking off the alley behind the home. Original woodwork, hardwood floors, gorgeous staircase, stained glass window.
Contact: Realtor name & Co: Barbara Rich, ReMax Professionals
Call: (816) 238-8889
House History & Gallery
Built in 1907, the William H. Moore House is a charming residence on a large corner lot. With its generous double porches it seems to be inviting you to sit a spell.
William H. and Jane C. Moore owned and operated a large farm on the Wallace Road. They were successful in their business, but as they got older and William’s health began to fail, they found that winters on the farm were too hard. They began to spend their winters in St. Joseph, and this lovely home with its location close to Noyes Boulevard was the perfect place.
In about 1925, the Moores sold the home to Donald McPhee and his wife Mary. Donald, who was born in Inverness Scotland, was a prominent live stock commission man – he was the president of McPhee Live Stock Commission co. which had its office in room 418 at the Livestock Exchange Building. Their daughter Anna, who worked as a bookkeeper and manager for her father’s company, shared the house with her parents. The McPhees had moved to St. Joseph from Nebraska and according to the newspaper reports, they visited home quite often. Donald died at the house in 1932 due to cirrhosis of the liver and is buried at Mt. Olivet cemetery. Mary continued to live at the home until 1938 when she sold it to Dr. and Mrs. J.F. Chiarottino.
During some of the time that the Chiarottinos owned the residence, Dr. Chiarottino was away serving as a physician in the Navy. He served for 32 months before he was discharged from the Navy and resumed his private practice in 1945. In 1949 they moved to a house on Lovers Lane and sold the house to Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Wells. Leonard Wells was the manager of the shoe department at the Plymouth Clothing Company. In 1950, Leonard took a new job as assistant manager of the Florsheim shoe store at 1008 Walnut Street in Kansas City.
The new job prompted the Wells to sell the home to John and Florence Adle, the owners of Bon Ton Cleaning Company.
Some houses just present a welcoming face to the world. The William H. Moore house at 2721 Faraon is just that kind of place. It is ready to welcome a new chapter to its story.
