Floyd Jacobs House

Floyd Jacobs House
Location: 5050 Sunset Dr., Kansas City, Missouri
Area: less than one acre
Built: 1925
Architect: Mary Rockwell Hook
Architectural style: Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals, Other
Governing body: Private
MPS: Residential Structures by Mary Rockwell Hook TR
NRHP Reference#: 83001003[1]
Added to NRHP: September 8, 1983

The Floyd Jacobs House, at 5050 Sunset Dr. in Kansas City, Missouri was built in 1925. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983 for its architecture. It was designed by architect Mary Rockwell Hook in Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals, and other architecture.[1]

The house was designed to demonstrate the value of hillside lots in its development. The design had to accommodate slope and frontage on two streets at different levels. It became home to Floyd Jacobs, a lawyer.[2]

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