In 1858 they decided to move to New York City to be with Anton’s mother and sisters that had already been there for some time. Due to his worsening case of tuberculosis and Francesca’s death in 1868, he decided to move his family to Kansas City.

After his business became successful, he began courting a young 28 year old widow, Mary (Maria) Einhellig Messerschmidt, who had two daughters of her own: Anna and Maria. After marrying in 1869 they had five daughters (four survived to maturity): Eva Marie, Antoinette, Josephine (sometimes listed as Fosefa), and Clara. Daughter Helen (sometimes listed as Frances) died in infancy age 14 months.

By 1872 the mansion was finally fully furnished, sitting on the Shawnee Indian trail that was part of the old Santa Fe Trail that many wagons passed.

After Anton’s death on August 16, 1879 in the second floor master bedroom, Mary and the children continued living in the house, as did the children continue living there after Mary’s death in 1919.

Daughter Eve Maria Sauer married William C. Van Fossen in the house, having one child named Helen before the marriage failed 18 months into it. She then married a widower with six children of his own, local Wyandotte County businessman and landowner, Mr. John S. Perkins. Together they had three children and stayed married until he committed suicide with a handgun at age 73, the reason being his declining health. Eve and John S. Perkins’ son John Harrison Perkins had an infant daughter drown in the swimming pool on the west side of the house. Eve continued to live in the family home with her son and two daughters, Eva Marie Perkins, and Marguerite A. Perkins, until her death in 1955.

Five generations of the Sauer family continued living in the mansion until the owner of a home heating oil company, Paul Berry, bought the house after Eve’s death. He lived in the mansion until his own death in December 1986. Because of ghost stories originating in 1930, the house was constantly trespassed and vandalized, which Barry and his dog fought off themselves.

In January 1987, Bud Wyman, his son and daughter in law, Cliff and Cindy Jones, bought the home hoping to turn it into a ‘haunted mansion’ and give tours. At this time, no one lived in the house. In 1988, Carl Lopp, great, great grandson of Anthony Sauer, bought the house with the intention of fixing it up and residing there to keep it in the family. However, this has proved to be a difficult task for Lopp, and has only managed minor repairs such as fixing balconies and putting a large fence around the property.

Carl Lopp’s hired caretaker of the house was charged with felony theft on On August 15, 1996 for stealing 30 thousand dollars worth of artifacts from the house, including a tractor, dress, chandelier, copper from the furnace, and wall scones.

There have been a number of ghost stories that can be disproved (such as the previous family all being murdered there by the father, who then continued to commit suicide) that keep people vandalizing the house, which keeps Lopp from receiving insurance money.

It is located at 935 Shawnee Road in Kansas City, Kansas. The architect is unknown but may have been Asa Beebe Cross. It was placed in the Kansas City, Kansas Historic Landmarks on January 29, 1987. It was placed in the Register of Historic Kansas Places on July 1, 1977. It was placed in the National Register of Historic Places: August 2, 1977

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I can share my own experiences with the paranormal on this property however. When I was about 8-9 years old, my father took us up there to check out the property. I was too afraid to set a foot on the property, so the adults walked around it to check it out. This was in the middle of the afternoon. I looked up to the watchtower where it appeared some white curtains were hung. I watched as one of the curtains was drawn open, stayed open for a moment, then closed again. I then took off around the property to find my parents. This could be explained as many things, the house was uninhabited at the time (but this doesn’t mean there wasn’t someone in there…legally or otherwise). I’m very sensitive to ghostly phenomenon, and I definitely felt a presence there, I will say that much. Later, when I was in high school a friend of mine and I ventured over to the house for a school photography assignment to photograph architecture. We walked around to the back of the property where a wooden shack that is built on to the main house. It seems to be a sort of kitchen maybe. Not sure. Anyway, the door was open (someone else had probably gone looking around and kicked it in). We went inside. On the counter-tops were some board games laid out and some cups of soda, it looked like it had been left abruptly. We went into the main part of the house and took photos of a claw-foot bath-tub and the main living room. There were long stairs leading to the upper floors and a large hallway with an ornate wooden banister leading down to the basement. It was a really stuffy, muggy day but a constant cold breeze was running through that hallway. It was close to May and it felt about 20 degrees inside. We went to the stairs leading up and saw this black shadow figure standing in the stairs and felt like we should leave then. It was very strange and oddly, we just calmly left the house. We just knew we should, but didn’t get afraid until later on. But at the time, we weren’t. When we walked around the property, we noticed from the corner of our eyes the figure of what seemed to be a young, brown-haired boy (?) wearing what seemed to be denim over-alls and a blue and white checked shirt. He just stayed in our peripheral and followed behind us. I turned and told her that the boy was making me nervous because he kept following us around and thought we should leave in case he was a local or something (as we were obviously trespassing). My friend agreed and we got back into her car. We sat in it for a while not talking, I asked her to explain what she saw to confirm that I wasn’t going crazy, she confirmed she saw the exact same things. We drove off, and then when we were at a stop light, she started shaking and we both had a delayed reaction to what we had seen, suddenly getting very scared. After this experience, I would say I think it’s haunted.

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