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Title
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Suncrest Residential District
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Description
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Map of the new, small residential district between 59th, Grassmere, 61st, and Ward Parkway.
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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Spanish in Kansas City, Missouri
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Description
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Description of the J. C. Nichols Building at 310 Ward Parkway, with an ancient-looking roof and tower and various Spanish touches including mosaics and fountains on the building grounds.
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Date
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1953
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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Seth Ward
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Description
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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.
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Date
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1905-05-19
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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The Grand American Avenue, 1850-1920
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Description
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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.
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Date
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1994
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Object Type
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Book
