John Wornall House Museum

When you step inside the John Wornall House Museum, you enter another century. In 1858 Kentuckian John B. Wornall built this elegant home in the Greek Revival style. Accurately restored to the period, its interior spaces and authentic furnishings demonstrate why the house was called "the most pretentious house in the section." Now engulfed by Kansas City's Brookside neighborhood, the John Wornall House originally sat on the Missouri frontier, the center of a 500-acre farm.During the 1864 Battle of Westport, both Confederate and Union armies occupied the sturdy brick farmhouse and used it as an emergency field hospital. This significant part of the Kansas City landscape is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Today guided tours take visitors through the house, where they experience the daily life of a prosperous, pre-Civil War family. At the end of the tour, enjoy our museum gift shop filled with a wide array of unique items. Visitors may also wander through the Museum's historically accurate herb and perennial gardens. The Museum features special events throughout the year including: children's classes, adult workshops, changing exhibits, and Christmas tours.The Museum is open February-December. Hours are Tuesday-Saturday, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and on Sundays, from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Tours are given every hour on the hour, with the last tour starting no later than 3 p.m. Admission is $6 for adults and $5 for students and senior citizens.Open Tuesday - Saturday, 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Sunday, 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Closed HolidaysThe John Wornall House Museum 6115 Wornall Road Kansas City, MO 64113 Phone: (816)444-1858 Fax: (816)361-8165 You should create your own MySpace Layouts like me by using nUCLEArcENTURy .COM's MySpace Profile Editor !