The John Wornall House Museum
6115 Wornall, Kansas City, MO
The Wornall House is one of four antebellum homes remaining in Kansas City. Built in 1858, the house served as a Civil War battlefield hospital for both Union and Confederate soldiers during the Battle of Westport. The original property consisted of 500 acres between 59th and 67th Street, State Line and Main Streets. The house and grounds now serve as a museum and center for living history programs for adults and children. The grounds include an extensive Missouri native garden as well as a charming enclosed kitchen garden and beautiful evergreens and flowering shrubs around the house and signage.
Our Extension Master Garden volunteers continue to work to beautify the landscape at the Wornall House. This includes not only caring for the existing native perennials, evergreens, and flowering shrubs but also by growing trays of annual seedlings and planting them in the garden for a lush display of color with the existing plants. They also plant warm season crops in the Kitchen Garden and donate harvested produce to the Raytown Emergency Assistance Program. They work in the garden on Wednesday mornings and on the 2nd and 4th Saturday mornings of the month and are always happy to answer visitor gardening questions.