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Title
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Museum, Neighbors at Odds Over Club
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Description
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Article examining the dispute between the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art and the Rockhill Tennis Club. The museum owns the tennis club property and wants to relocate offices to the club and use the surrounding grounds to house part of its outdoor sculpture garden. "Residents of the surrounding Rockhill and Southmoreland neighborhoods are opposed to the office plan."
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Date
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2008-04-02
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Rockhill Tennis Club
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Description
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Photograph of the property at 4520 Kenwood Avenue, circa 1981, looking east from Rockhill Road. The house, adjacent to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, was initially known as "Stonehouse," the home of William Rockhill Nelson's daughter Laura and her husband Irving Kirkwood upon their 1910 marriage. It was later purchased by local lumber company executive DeVere Dierks, before serving as the home of the Rockhill Tennis Club from 1955 to 2010. A swingset and other playground equipment can be seen on the lawn of the property.
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Date
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1981~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Rockhill Tennis Club
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Description
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Photograph of the property at 4520 Kenwood Avenue, circa 1981, looking north. The house, adjacent to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, was initially known as "Stonehouse," the home of William Rockhill Nelson's daughter Laura and her husband Irving Kirkwood upon their 1910 marriage. It was later purchased by local lumber company executive DeVere Dierks, before serving as the home of the Rockhill Tennis Club from 1955 to 2010.
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Date
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1981
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Dispute Pits Tennis Club Vs. Nelson Museum
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Description
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There is tension between the Rockhill neighborhood and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art concerning the fate of the Rockhill Tennis Club. The museum trustees own the tennis club at 46th Street and Rockhill Road which started in 1915, and they want to rehab the building and use it for office space. Some of the residents of the Rockhill and Southmoreland neighborhoods want to keep the tennis club open. The City Council has gotten involved, and it is hoped that a beneficial resolution will happen before the lease runs up on December 31, 2009.
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Date
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2008-05-08
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
