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Clubhouse, 1888-1922. After the Civil War, most of Kansas City's social clubs were pro-Confederate.A group of prominent local businessmen and professionals, including Edward H. Allen, Victor B. Bell, Alden J. Blethen, Thomas B. Bullene, Gardiner Lathrop, August Meyer, Leander J. Talbott, William Warner, and Robert T. Van Horn, decided to provide an alternative, and organized the Kansas City ...
The Kansas City Club Building is a 14-story building in downtown Kansas City, Missouri, built from 1918 to 1922. [2] It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 2002. [1] It was built as the clubhouse of the Kansas City Club, a private club. It remained the clubhouse until 2001, when the club merged with a nearby ...
View of downtown from Penn Valley Park The rose garden in Loose Park is Kansas City's third-largest public park. J.C. Nichols Memorial Fountain, by Henri-Léon Gréber, is in Mill Creek Park, adjacent to Country Club Plaza. Kansas City has 132 miles (212 km) of boulevards and parkways, 214 urban parks, 49 ornamental fountains, 152 baseball ...
Kansas City, Missouri has nearly 240 neighborhoods [1] including Downtown, 18th and Vine, River Market, Crossroads, Country Club Plaza, Westport, the new Power and Light District, and several suburbs.
Cattle towns, a generic name often associated with the American Old West; Abilene, Kansas, from 1867 to 1871, the Chisholm Trail ended in Abilene; Dodge City, Kansas, from 1883 to 1884, the Great Western Cattle Trail ended in Dodge City
The company grew through meeting high cotton demand during World War I. By 1944 the company had grown to be the largest provider of cotton in the world, [7] and had cotton oil mills and cotton gins in several countries. [8] The company went public in 1945, and continued to expand by financing cotton growers in several states. [9]
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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.