Kansas City, MO · Jackson County
St. Catherine's Gardens
Built around 1959 · typically 1,103 sq ft above grade · 27 sales in twelve months
Named for a parish founded here in 1925, thirty years before the houses and a century before it closed.
The market here, last twelve months
Half of the homes that sold went under contract within 7 days. The median sale closed at 100.0% of asking - at list. 74% closed at or above the original list price, which is the better measure of how much room a buyer actually has.
Aggregated from Heartland MLS closed sales, twelve months to July 2026. Individual sale prices are not shown - Kansas and Missouri are non-disclosure states and MLS rules do not permit their public display. Ask for the full report.
The story of St. Catherine's Gardenshow it came to be
The subdivision takes its name from St. Catherine of Siena parish at Hickman Mills, founded in the autumn of 1925 largely through the efforts of Mr. and Mrs. Frank P. Walsh. The first Mass was said in the Walsh family home on 22 November 1925; the family donated land on 10 April 1926 at the corner of Grandview Road and Jackson Street, north of their house, and the first Mass in the church built on it was celebrated at Christmas 1926. A new brick church was dedicated on 23 December 1956. source
The parish itself is gone. The Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph announced its closure in February 2023 and St. Thomas More absorbed the parish boundaries; the final Mass was said on 29 April 2023. The subdivision keeps the name. source
What the houses are likemedian built 1959
The median home sold here was built in 1959. Most of what sells was built between 1958 and 1963. 63% of sales included finished basement space beyond the above-grade footprint - which matters here, because square footage quoted above grade can understate a house considerably.
By property type: Single Family (27).
Addresses here fall in ZIP 64137.
Compared with Kansas City as a wholehow this neighborhood differs
| St. Catherine's Gardens | Kansas City | |
|---|---|---|
| Median sale price | $230,000 | $295,000 |
| Median $/sq ft | $201 | $206 |
| Median days on market | 7 | 16 |
| Median year built | 1959 | 1964 |
| Finished basement | 63% | 45% |
Both columns are medians over the same twelve months, so they are directly comparable.
What this means if you are buying in St. Catherine's Gardensspecific to this neighborhood
The parish buildings predated the housing stock by about thirty years, which is the ordinary pattern in south Kansas City: an institution anchors a crossroads and the subdivision arrives around it later. It also means the street grid here was laid to meet something that already existed, so lot shapes and orientations are less uniform than the late-1950s build date suggests - worth looking at the plat before assuming lots are interchangeable. Note too that the parish closed in 2023, so any listing describing the neighborhood by its proximity to an active parish is out of date.
What to check in homes of this agepost-war stock
With a median year built of 1959, most homes here are post-war stock. None of the following says anything about a specific house - they are the questions worth asking of any home of this age.
- Footprints are smaller than modern equivalents and closets are noticeably so. Square footage comparisons against newer stock tend to flatter the newer house.
- Garages are often one-car, detached, or absent, and electrical panels may have been upgraded once but not twice.
- The pre-1978 lead-paint disclosure and ten-day inspection window applies (40 CFR 745.110).
A note on older deed languagevoid and unenforceable
Deeds written in this era sometimes carry restrictive covenant language relating to race, religion or national origin. Where it appears, it is void and unenforceable in both states, and has been for decades: Missouri directs that such a recital be “ignored, as if the same never existed” source, and Kansas, where such covenants were already unlawful, added a release procedure effective 1 July 2024 source. An owner in either state may record a certificate of release, which does not alter the original document but restates that the covenant cannot be enforced. It is a paperwork question rather than a live restriction - but it is worth recognizing if it surfaces in your title work. What this language is, and how to release it.
What sold, in more detailsizes, bedroom mix and timing
Of the 27 homes sold, 1 were 2-bed, 18 were 3-bed, 8 were 4-bed.
Above-grade size ranged from about 928 to 1,802 sq ft across the middle 80% of sales, so the median alone understates how much variation there is.
Closings cluster in May, October and April, with 59% of the year's sales closing between April and September. Because closing typically follows the contract by a month or more, listing activity runs earlier than that.
Other neighborhoods in Kansas City31 more with their own data
- Armour Hills 73 sales
- Ruskin Heights 69 sales
- Marlborough Heights 65 sales
- Woodhaven 53 sales
- Cadence Villas 46 sales
- Somerbrook 45 sales
- Ruskin Hills 45 sales
- Staley Farms 43 sales
- Red Bridge 39 sales
- Gracemor 36 sales
- New Mark 35 sales
- Crestview 35 sales
- Broadland 35 sales
- Fountain Hills 34 sales
- Sherwood Estates 33 sales
- Brooke Hills 33 sales
- Robandee 33 sales
- Platte Ridge 33 sales
- Ward Park 31 sales
- Rockhill Gardens 29 sales
- Romanelli Gardens 29 sales
- North Creek Village 29 sales
- Wildwood West 29 sales
- North Hampton 28 sales
Thinking about St. Catherine's Gardens?
These numbers describe what has sold. What they cannot tell you is which street, which floor plan, or what your own house would fetch here. Ask me about St. Catherine's Gardens, or see the wider Kansas City market.