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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.
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.
The Kansas City Club on Baltimore Avenue. Originally developed as a commercial and entertainment area in the 1880s, the Library District took its new name in 2003 in connection with the move of the Kansas City Public Library's Central Branch to the former headquarters of the First National Bank of Kansas City, presently the Central Library.
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The system operates its Central Library and neighborhood branches located in Kansas City, Independence, and Sugar Creek. Founded on December 5, 1873, [3] it is the oldest and third largest public library system in the Kansas City metropolitan area.
The Kansas City Public Library Westport branch temporarily closed last week after an altercation between two library patrons that resulted in a police response, library officials said.
The Kansas City area is a confluence of four major U.S. interstate highways: I-29 – North to St. Joseph, Missouri; I-35 – North to Des Moines, Iowa and south to Wichita, Kansas; I-49 – South to Joplin; I-70 – East to St. Louis and west to Topeka, Kansas; Other interstates that cross through the area include:
The Central Library is the main library of the Kansas City Public Library system, which is located in the Library District of Downtown Kansas City, Missouri, United States.It is situated at 14 West 10th Street, at the corner of West 10th Street and Baltimore Avenue, across Baltimore Avenue from the Kansas City Club and up from the New York Life Building.