This Multiple Property Listing is focused east of Kansas City's downtown in an area shaped by Kansas City's 1893 Plan for Parks and Boulevards. The plan created The Paseo Boulevard (completed in 1899), a parkway which runs north to south from approximately 9th Street to 18th Street. Dilapidated structures were cleared for the construction of The Paseo. At the tum-of-the tentury, the new boulevard proved to be fertile ground for the development of new apartment buildings. By 1925, more than forty apartment buildings lined The Paseo between 9" and 14" Streets.
The apartments on the north end of The Paseo are typically multi-story, masonry buildings with one or more prominent multi-story porches. The property type was born of an unlikely marriage of civic planning which promoted increased population density and a Progressive-Era movement that took its cues from the parks movement of the 1890s. The apartment style emerged with prominent porches capitalizing on the boulevard setting and marketed to a growing middle class. Ironically, many of these apartments which were built as the result of late-nineteenth and early twentieth century efforts toward city beautification and planning, were casualties of similar (and some would argue much less successful) urban renewal efforts in later decades. - NRHP
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| Maine Apartments |
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| McMahon Apartments |
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| The Parkview |
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| Maples Apartments |
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| Ellsworth Apartments |
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