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A Home District Beautiful
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| Title | A Home District Beautiful |
| Abstract | Photos, architectural drawings, and article about the Country Club District of Kansas City, with details of its beauty and design and history, including an interview with "J. C. Nichols, designer and builder of the district." To ensure the district remains beautiful and harmonious, a Women's Community Council meets regularly. Miss Louise Hook, "daughter of Judge William C. Hook, of the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals," is secretary to the council. |
| Notes | Page 80: "The whole Country Club district is divided into neighborhoods; the houses in each are of a distinct type of architecture suited to the lay of the land there, and each neighborhood has its name. They are: Sunset Hill, Mission Hills, Hampstead Gardens, Wornall Manor, Greenway Fields and Crestwood. The theory is that those names have a sentimental meaning and value to those who live there. Mission Hills is near the site of an old Quaker mission to the Shawnee Indians; Hampstead Gardens has homes of English design, set in gardens; Wornall Manor is on the site of the Wornall farm, the scene of desperate fighting in the Battle of Westport; each house in Greenway Fields has a green roof, and Crestwood is a thickly wooded plateau." |
| Author | A. B. MacDonald
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| Date | February 1921 |
| Source | Ladies Home Journal |
| Location | SC 73: (Folio) Collection of Magazine Article Photocopies |
| Volume | 38 |
| Number | 2 |
| Page | 12-13, 80-82 |
| Subject | Dwellings
Houses
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| Local Subject | Country Club District
Residential Districts
Residences
Nichols, Jesse Clyde (J.C.)
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| Illustrations | Yes |
| Item Type | Magazine Article
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| Access This Item | This document is not available online. You may come to the Missouri Valley Room to view it or request a photocopy from the Library's Document Delivery service. http://www.kclibrary.org/copy-requests |
| Item ID | 111181 |
| CONTENTdm number | 15806 |
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