![]() Fire crews showed up to try and resuscitate the two-year-old but failed. ![]() Her cries were heard by the child’s mother who then waded in to get her daughter. ![]() Wilson found Cecelia floating in the water on her way to use the telephone at the Castle. Cecelia Marie Perkins, aged two & fourth-generation descendent of the Sauers, was found in the Sauer Castle swimming pool by neighbor and relative Agnes Wilson. The Sauer family suffered a tragedy at the Castle’s pool on August 31, 1940. Finally returning to the Sauer family, the great-great-grandson of Anton Sauer, Carl Lopp, bought the property in 1988. This same year it added the Kansas City, Kansas Historic Landmarks title onto its list on January 29, 1987. In January 1987, Bud Wyman, his son and daughter-in-law, Cliff and Cindy Jones, bought the mansion in hopes of restoring it into a bed & breakfast but were unsuccessful. Berry passed away in 1986 and the house went up for sale, already in a bit of dismay. During this time it acquired a Register of Historic Kansas Places title on July 1, 1977, and the National Register of Historic Places title on August 2, 1977. The family-owned the house until 1954 when Paul Berry bought the property and lived in it. His wife/widow Maria Sauer continued to live in the home until her passing on November 30, 1919. Featuring three Italian marble fireplaces, a glass chandelier imported from Austria, lace curtains imported from Brussels, mirrors imported from Florence, an enchanting walnut staircase, and two stone lions that guard the entry.Īnton Sauer passed away on August 16, 1879, less than ten years after finishing his Italian Villa Castle. By 1872 it was completed, costing around $20,000 to build the twenty-room castle which amounts to $424,755 in today’s money. Construction started on the mansion in 1871 making it one of the oldest houses still in existence in Kansas City. Finally settling down in Kansas City Anton owned around two hundred acres and picked a spot that reminded him of his homeland along the Rhine River. Originally from Hessen Germany, the wealthy entrepreneur spent his younger days traveling all over South America and other countries. National Register of Historic Places (August 2, 1977)Īnton Philip Sauer immigrated to Kansas City from New York in 1868.
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