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Quality Hill, Bounded by Jefferson Street, Broadway Street,10th Street, & Fourteenth Street, Kansas City, Jackson County, MO

Quality Hill, Bounded by Jefferson Street, Broadway Street,10th Street, & Fourteenth Street, Kansas City, Jackson County, MO

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Summary

Significance: The Quality Hill Historic District is a significant surviving section of what was once one of the most fashionable and prestigious residential neighborhoods in Kansas City, Missouri, during the third quarter of the nineteenth century. The area was developed and utilized by individuals originally from the East (New York, Pennsylvania, and New England) who played a major role in the early industrial, political and social life of the city. The Quality Hill neighborhood represents a variety of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century residential, ecclesiastical and small commercial design architecture from the period spanning the years 1856 to 1929.
Survey number: HABS MO-1250
Building/structure dates: 1856- 1929 Initial Construction

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Date

1929 - 1980
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Contributors

Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
Wegman-French, Lysa, transmitter
Cacy, Kevin, delineator
Briscoe, Lisa Lassman, historian
Schwenk, Sarah F, historian
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Location

Kansas City (Mo.)39.09630, -94.55616
Google Map of 39.0963003, -94.55616239999999
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Source

Library of Congress
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No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html

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