Official Wall of Shame of Ugly Houses in KC

AlbertHammond · Post by **AlbertHammond** » Wed Apr 01, 2009 1:07 pm

Ugliest Houses in the KC Metro?

There are plenty of ugly houses in KC. I'm not talking about regular ugly houses. I'm talking about REALLY ugly houses! Houses that should be listed as a "Top 10" ugliest houses on just about anyone's list. Bad proportions. Bad materials. Bad site location. Bad addition...after addition..after addition to make it an ugly house.

You have a couple in mind....I know you do!

List an address and include a photo. If you don't have a photo, include a Google Streetview of the uglyness.

AllThingsKC · Post by **AllThingsKC** » Wed Apr 01, 2009 3:47 pm

STL is nothing but REALLY ugly houses.

slimwhitman · Post by **slimwhitman** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 1:38 pm

This one is on County Line Road, near Alhambra in Mission.

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This one was on 71st Street, west of Belinder. It was a bad rehab from the late '90s. Was on the market for a year or two recently, then finally sold and demolished a few months ago. Yea!!

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This one is on Wyoming, just north of 39th. What the hell?

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This one is a great example of how to make a cute and quaint home a ...well.... I don't really have words to describe it.

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I have a couple more, but they are not on streetview, so I need to do a drive-by to get a photo.

Midtownkid · Post by **Midtownkid** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 1:41 pm

Oh god, those are nasty. Umm, the 39th street one had potential but ended up really weird...and ugly!

PumpkinStalker · Post by **PumpkinStalker** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 2:04 pm

Always thought this was an ugly one on State Line.

http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ie=UT ... 1,-3.71875

heatherkay · Post by **heatherkay** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 3:04 pm

slimwhitman wrote: This one is a great example of how to make a cute and quaint home a ...well.... I don't really have words to describe it.

Oh, man. When we lived in Roeland Park we'd walk around and talk about all the homemade houses. The ones where the owner was a shop teacher or a roofing contractor or something and he did the addition himself. It was always a matter of not enough windows or not in the right places or the dimensions were wrong.

This particular house is a category we called the "man-shack." That is, a shack with a mansion stuck on the back. "You know what this house needs? Another house!"

LenexatoKCMO · Post by **LenexatoKCMO** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 3:17 pm

heatherkay wrote: Oh, man. When we lived in Roeland Park we'd walk around and talk about all the homemade houses. The ones where the owner was a shop teacher or a roofing contractor or something and he did the addition himself. It was always a matter of not enough windows or not in the right places or the dimensions were wrong.

This particular house is a category we called the "man-shack." That is, a shack with a mansion stuck on the back. "You know what this house needs? Another house!"

That's more like a shack with an ugly apartment block stuck on the back.

That house on Wyoming - is that the front or the back? Is it bad that I am honestly not sure?

heatherkay · Post by **heatherkay** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 3:25 pm

For that particular house, I think the owner has some sort of home business that he runs out of the apartment looking building.

Post by **mean** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 4:42 pm

If that thing on Wyoming is the building next to Mr. Z's, it is apartments. I have a friend who lives in one of them.

LenexatoKCMO · Post by **LenexatoKCMO** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 4:47 pm

This thread just reminds me how much I miss Tosspot's architecture critic articles he used to post.

KCLofts · Post by **KCLofts** » Fri Apr 03, 2009 9:57 am

Any one remember the pastel-striped house on Ward Parkway near Ward Parkway mall?

PumpkinStalker · Post by **PumpkinStalker** » Fri Apr 03, 2009 10:03 am

KCLofts wrote: Any one remember the pastel-striped house on Ward Parkway near Ward Parkway mall?

Yes, the story I always heard was that they had a child that was dying of leukemia or something, and he/she had always dreamed of a rainbow painted house, so the parents did that as a tribute or something. Not sure the validity, just what I heard.

jimb · Post by **jimb** » Fri Apr 03, 2009 10:24 am

PumpkinStalker wrote: Yes, the story I always heard was that they had a child that was dying of leukemia or something, and he/she had always dreamed of a rainbow painted house, so the parents did that as a tribute or something. Not sure the validity, just what I heard.

The story I heard was it was once owned by a siding contractor that wanted to reside it with leftovers. The HOA told them all sides had to be the same, so to thumb his nose at them he did the rainbow thing. All sides were the same.

Can vouch for the veracity of my story either.

mlind · Post by **mlind** » Fri Apr 03, 2009 11:32 am

You want ugly? In 1991 a fire in the Oakland CA hills destroyed 3000 homes. Below are some examples of homes that were constructed on the burned out sites.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/ar ... 97.DTL&o=1

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/ar ... 97.DTL&o=2

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/ar ... 97.DTL&o=3

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/ar ... 95.DTL&o=1

woodrow · Post by **woodrow** » Fri Apr 03, 2009 11:47 am

mlind wrote: You want ugly? In 1991 a fire in the Oakland CA hills destroyed 3000 homes. Below are some examples of homes that were constructed on the burned out sites.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/ar ... 97.DTL&o=1

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/ar ... 97.DTL&o=2

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/ar ... 97.DTL&o=3

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/ar ... 95.DTL&o=1

hmmmmm . . . I really like the first and third, not so much second and fourth

Midtownkid · Post by **Midtownkid** » Fri Apr 03, 2009 1:30 pm

KCLofts wrote: Any one remember the pastel-striped house on Ward Parkway near Ward Parkway mall?

I loved the rainbow house! In pre-school I had dreams of 'Living in the rainbow house'. This was way before I realized I was gay, too! haha

BSykes · Post by **BSykes** » Mon Apr 06, 2009 4:59 pm

mlind wrote: You want ugly? In 1991 a fire in the Oakland CA hills destroyed 3000 homes. Below are some examples of homes that were constructed on the burned out sites.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/ar ... 97.DTL&o=1

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/ar ... 97.DTL&o=2

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/ar ... 97.DTL&o=3

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/ar ... 95.DTL&o=1

The first and third are gorgeous...

unclejay · Post by **unclejay** » Mon Apr 06, 2009 5:34 pm

I think by ugly we mean no architectural aesthetic what so ever, not architecture you don't like.

zonk · Post by **zonk** » Mon Apr 06, 2009 8:01 pm

i actually kind of like those....except the last one.

kucer · Post by **kucer** » Tue Apr 07, 2009 9:08 am

6232 Ward Parkway

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source= ... 02465,,0,5

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