The Judge Louis R. Gates House is located at 4146 Cambridge Street in

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. Clarence E. Shepard was the architect of this example of a Prairie School residence. It was placed on the Register of Historic Kansas Places on July 3, 1979, and on the

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on December 1, 1980. It was designated a Kansas City Historic Landmark on August 26, 1982. It is a two-story Prairie School house with a

hipped roof A hip roof, hip-roof or hipped roof, is a type of roof where all sides slope downwards to the walls, usually with a fairly gentle slope (although a tented roof by definition is a hipped roof with steeply pitched slopes rising to a peak). Thus, ...

, wide eaves, and a side entrance porch. The main portion is in plan; a one-story extension to the rear holds a breakfast room and a rear entrance. With .

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