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Title: Notice to Property Owners of the Opening and Establishing of Broadway from the North Line of A. B. H. McGee's Addition for Hamilton Street
Description: Article announcing the plans to enlarge Broadway Boulevard from the northern boundary of "A. B. H. McGee's Addition for Hamilton Street," listing all property owners of the area affected.
Date: 1895-09-07
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: McGee's Addition to the City of Kansas
Description: Copy of the original 1857 plat of McGee's Addition. Shows an area from 8th Street north to 2nd, and from Holmes Street west to Eleanor Street.
Date: 1857
Object Type: Map

Title: SC9 Abstracts Collection Finding Aid
Description: Assortment of abstracts, most of them for historical Kansas City areas, but a few are of other places. Documents are transcriptions or copies of transcriptions of the original documents. Abstracts include a variety of related documents, including will, divorce decrees, and similar documents that would affect ownership of property. Includes abstract for Shawnee Lands in Wyandotte County, Kansas involving the Bluejacket family; various properties in Westport and McGee's Addition; and McCoy's Lot 9 where Boone's Trading Post was built.
Date: 1832/1972
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: Annals of the City of Kansas: Embracing Full Details of the Trade and Commerce of the Great Western Plains
Description: Detailed description of the extension of Grand Avenue south to Westport from Kansas City in 1857, "decidedly one of the handsomest and most attractive streets in the State--and is evidently destined to become one of the principal business streets of the city," passing through McGee's Addition.
Date: 1858
Object Type: Book

Title: Annals of the City of Kansas: Embracing Full Details of the Trade and Commerce of the Great Western Plains
Description: Description of McGee's Addition, a subdivision south of Kansas City developed by Colonel E. Milton McGee from "a portion of the estate of the late James McGee," his father. Description of its size and location on the southern edge of Grand Avenue with Milton's brick house and several other buildings erected in the mid- to late 1850s to attract new residents.
Date: 1950
Object Type: Book

Title: City Window: Wide Berth
Description: Ever wonder why Grand Avenue is wider than other streets downtown? One of biggest givers of land to Kansas City, next to Colonel Thomas Swope, was Milton McGee, who, in 1852, gave the city an entire block now bounded by Oak, Locust, and 14th Street and 14th Terrace and specified that it should be used for a park. McGee made his fortune in gold during the California gold rush, returned to Kansas City and bought land from 12th Street to 20th and Main to Holmes in 1856. It was known as 'McGee's Addition,' but was not in the city limits at the time. When the city limits were extended to 20th Street in 1859, McGee insisted that Grand Avenue be wide enough so he could turn his horse and buggy completely around without having to back up.
Date: 1979-10-01
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Wright's Map of Kansas City
Description: Cadastral street map of Kansas City showing streets, railroad lines, and some plat information. Handwritten in ink on the map are several notations regarding the location of Union Depot, as well as an outline of the Quality Hill area. Also includes notations specifying the location of McGee's Addition, Merriam Place, and West Kansas.
Date: 1880
Object Type: Map

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