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Title: Deadly Beauty: Should Meyer Circle Be Redesigned or Should the Circle Be Unbroken?
Description: Article analyzing the possibilities of redesigning Meyer Circle, the historic but accident-prone intersection on Ward Parkway, a busy north-south automobile artery, with photo and bar graph.
Date: 1985-07
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: 8880 Ward Parkway Building
Description: View of the 8880 Ward Parkway Building. The architecture firm HNTB received an award for design of this building, which successfully resolves issues related to small site.
Date: 1986
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Designers' Showhouse Revisited! A Look Back at the Colorful History of One of Kansas City's Favorite Homes
Description: Story of the mansion at 55th and Ward Parkways in the Country Club District, and its owner, Mack B. Nelson, a Long-Bell Lumber Company executive.
Date: 1993-01
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: The Homes of Meyer Circle
Description: History of Meyer Circle, developed by J. C. Nichols and George E. Kessler, with interior scenes of homes on the street.
Date: 1994-11
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Seth Ward
Description: Photos (of Ward and his Kansas City home) and chapter of the book about Seth Edmund Ward, or Seth Ward (1820-1903), "a runaway apprentice, a Rocky Mountain trapper, an Indian trader, post sutler at Fort Laramie, merchandising magnate of Nebraska City, and a patriarch of Westport (Kansas City, Missouri)." Native of Virginia moving to Independence, Missouri about 1838 and then to New Mexico with the Captain Lancaster Lupton wagon train as a fur trader, dealing with Kit Carson, Jim Bridger, and other mountain men (also operating as a cattle herder in Wyoming in the early 1850s) before settling on an estate south of Westport in 1871, purchased from the William Bent estate.
Date: 1905-05-19
Object Type: Book

Title: Map of the Country Club Plaza
Description: Tour and store directory map for the Country Club Plaza shopping center. A note records that the illustration is based on an original 1947 map and revised of January 1967. Significant Plaza buildings, shops and amenities are shown. The reverse side provides a directory of retail and service shops with addresses and telephone exchange numbers. A text description of the Country Club Plaza is also included.
Date: 1967
Object Type: Map

Title: The Grand American Avenue, 1850-1920
Description: Chapter of the book devoted to Ward Parkway as one of the nation's finest avenues, planned by J. C. Nichols and George E. Kessler as a connection between the park and boulevard system and the Country Club District.
Date: 1994
Object Type: Book

Title: Country Club District: ''Kansas City's Greatest Asset''
Description: Advertising brochure with map showing housing developments in the Country Club District. Shows the Ward Parkway and Meyer Circle areas, and Romanelli Gardens extended.
Date: 1930-05-06
Object Type: Map

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