The Chalfonte Apartment, 1110-12 E. Armour Boulevard, is a
five-story, multi-family residential building that was constructed in
1908-09. The architect for the neo-classical revival building was Matt
O’Connell. The ornamented front façade of the building is gray
rusticated limestone ashlars, the lower two floors are faced with
dressed limestone ashlars, also light gray in color, and buff colored
brick veneers the upper stores. There are decorative details of wood,
stone, and pressed metal. The side and rear facades consist of red
brick, laid in common bond, above a limestone rubble foundation. |
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The Old Hyde Park Historic District
is comprised of two residential
areas bounded by Linwood and Armour boulevards, Central Street, Gillham
Road, and 39th Street. The district is limited mainly to properties
constructed as residences along Central, Baltimore, Wyandotte, Warwick,
Walnut and numbered side streets. Properties along Man Street and
Broadway are excluded from the district.
Most of the area
included in the Old Hyde Park Historic District was platted as portions
of the Hyde Park subdivision between 1886 and 1901. Small fragments of
the district comprise other plats, such as Hanover Place platted in
1886. These subdivisions were formed from farmland adjacent to the
pre-Civil War town of Westport that had been owned by families
associated with Westport and the western expansion, such as J.J. Mastin,
Seth and Hugh Ward, and John Harris. Hyde Park was annexed by Kansas
City in 1897 as part of a large tract of land, extending approximately
from 31st Street south to Brush Creek and from the state line east to
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The Rockhill Homes
Association boundaries are in general Rockhill Terrace/44th Street
on the north, Oak Street on the west, Pierce Street on the south and
Troost Avenue on the east.
The Rockhill Historic District was
listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. Rockhill was
one of the first platted residential developments in the Midwest in
which modern land use planning techniques were used such as deed
restrictions, streets that follow the contour of the land, extensive
landscaping, planned open space, and stone walls giving space margins to
all residents. William Rockhill Nelson, promoter of the parks and
boulevard system in Kansas City and newspaper editor/owner, developed
the neighborhood. Rockhill is the oldest neighborhood in the city that
consistently has maintained its original character.
Fifty-three
homes designed by William Rockhill Nelson still remain in the district
and are listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Other
significant residences in the district were designed by a representative
sampling of leading Kansas City architects, such as Shepard, Farrar, and
Wiser; Alice Walton; Edward Delk; Root and Siemens; Smith, Rea and
Lovitt; Howe, Hoit and Cutler; John Van Brunt; Adriance Van Brunt; and
Courtlandt Van Brunt, only to mention a few. The first phase of
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The Historic Southmoreland Neighborhood is
located in Midtown Kansas City from Thirty-ninth Street on the northern
boundary to Forty-seventh Street on the southern, the west side of Main
Street to Gillham/Rockhill Road on the east. The general boundaries of
the Southmoreland Historic District are generally the east of Walnut;
north of 45th Street; west of Rockhill Road; and south of 43rd Street.
The district contains 61 conforming structures and 5 non-conforming
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Historic Neighbors
