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Wickes Group plc trading as Wickes is a home improvement retailer and garden centre, based in the United Kingdom with more than 230 stores throughout the country. Its main business is the sale of supplies and materials, for homeowners and the building trade. [2] It is listed on the London Stock Exchange.
Sears, Roebuck and Company Warehouse Building, also known as Missouri Poster and Sign Company, Inc. and Bellas Hess Antique Mall, is a historic warehouse building located at North Kansas City, Missouri. It was built in 1912–1923, and is a nine-story building built as a merchandise warehouse for Sears.
Brothers Henry Dunn Wickes and Edward Noyes Wickes moved to Flint, Michigan, from New York in 1854, becoming involved in the area's lumber industry.The brothers, along with partner H.W. Wood, later established Genesee Iron Works, a foundry and machine shop; after buying out Wood, the business was renamed Wickes Bros. Iron Works and moved to Saginaw, Michigan, to be closer to a source of pig iron.
Ward Parkway was created as part of developer J.C. Nichols's overall plans for the Country Club District.Desiring a boulevard that would exceed the aesthetic value of all other streets in Kansas City, Nichols hired landscape architect George Kessler, who had designed several other boulevards, parks, and neighborhoods throughout Kansas City, Missouri, including Hyde Park. [2]
The W39thKC district, located along 39th Street from State Line Road to Southwest Trafficway. The historic Loretto, located at 1111 W. 39th Street. The Westport Middle School and Westport High School buildings, straddling E 39th Street between McGee and Locust Streets. The Eagle Scout Memorial Fountain, located at 39th Street and Gillham Road.
Downtown Kansas City skyline, looking northwest. The list of tallest buildings in Kansas City, Missouri focuses on the boom of higher residential occupancy downtown. The modernization of the skyline includes the Kansas City Power and Light Building, Municipal Auditorium, and the Kansas City Convention Center pylons.
Quality Hill is a historic neighborhood near downtown Kansas City, Missouri, USA, on a 200-foot-high bluff which overlooks the confluence of the Kansas and Missouri rivers in the West Bottoms below. Located on the west side of downtown, it is bounded by Broadway to the east, I-35 to the west, 7th Street to the north, and 14th Street to the south.
Westport is a historic neighborhood and a main entertainment district in Kansas City, Missouri.. In the early 1800s, West Port was settled by a group led by American pioneer and tribal missionary Reverend Isaac McCoy, who brought his son John Calvin McCoy as surveyor, and his son-in-law Reverend Johnston Lykins who bought the land.