![]() ![]() While the defendants the charges, one did say they were in the vicinity of the Castle because of curiosity. The defendants were found guilty of disturbing the peace and trespassing at the residence of Paul Berry. The Kansas City Times 01 March 1965 -– Curiousity concerning the Sauer Castle today cost 6 youths $50 each in police court. ![]() Booked on charges of trespassing and disturbing the peace. Berry met the youths with a rifle, as he has met others and detained them until police arrived. Two fun-seeking youths were arrested by KCK police last night as they sought what little mystery there is in trespassing on the property of Paul Berry. The Kansas City Times 19 June 1964 - Lightning flashed, ominous clouds moved rapidly across the sky and the wind moaned through the clustered pine trees on the grounds of the Sauer Castle. Berry was charged with discharging a firearm within city limits and destruction of private property. Berry who had also called the police led patrolmen to where the girls had scrambled from the car and were at the door of a house. The girls panicked and with a flattened right front tire sped two blocks to call for help. They said they drove to the district to pick up a schoolmate, got lost and were turning around when their car was riddled with bullets. But the girls last night did not intentionally go to the castle. Three of that group pleaded guilty to charges. Tuesday night nine youths with nothing better to do paid a visit to the castle, only to be met by Berry, who rushed from the front door and stopped the scattering youths with two warning shots from a. It was the second time in as many nights that Berry had been unwelcomed to teenagers. 22 caliber bullets into the motor car, flattening a tire and putting two holes in a fender and two dents in the hood. Paul Berry, a truck driver who owns the mansion, fired a half dozen. The Kansas City Times 10 April 1964 -– Five Johnson County school girls picked the wrong driveway to turn around in last night–the horseshoe drive in front of the old Sauer Castle. A majority of the times they have been met with lethal or excessive force from the owner and in more recent years the caretaker. Now the concrete walls where the pool once was are barely visible.įor decades the Sauer Castle has been troubled with trespassers. John Perkins was so overcome with grief that he hand filled the pool. 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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