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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.
The West Bottoms was founded as a livestock and meatpacking district in 1871. [2] It was home to the Kansas City Live Stock Exchange, Kansas City Stockyards, and the city's first Union railway depot. [3] The stockyards occupied more than two hundred acres and were surrounded by hotels, offices, shops, and banks for cattle buyers and cowboys. [4]
In the late 1950s and into the 1960s, the owners opened locations in Denver, Colorado, Washington, D.C., and Nashville, Tennessee. [8]In 2003, while the Golden Ox was owned by Jerry Rauschelbach, a short-lived second location was opened at 95th Street and Metcalf Ave in Overland Park, Kansas, that had formerly housed Houston's restaurant.
Browne’s Irish Marketplace. Location: 3300 Pennsylvania Ave.. Year founded: 1887. Best known for: Reubens with cold pints of Guinness. The Irish imports shop and deli got its start in 1887. Ed ...
The Edge of Hell in Kansas City West Bottoms district is the nation’s oldest continuously operating haunted attraction. It features a signature 5-story spiral slide and an encounter with the devil.
Art, food and maybe a little sweat are on the agenda for Kansas City’s First Friday. It’s almost August’s First Friday. What to look for in the Crossroads and West Bottoms
Downtown Kansas City is defined as being roughly bounded by the Missouri River to the north, 31st Street to the south, Troost Avenue to the east, and State Line Road to the west. The locations of National Register properties and districts are in an online map.
The Kansas City Live Stock Exchange building was the headquarters of the former historic Kansas City Stockyards. It is located at 1600 Gennesse in Kansas City, Missouri , in the West Bottoms . The building is on the National Register of Historic Places and is owned by Bill Haw.