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Country Club Plaza: Country Club Plaza
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    • BruceDunning
  • Updated By BruceDunning on May 19, 2009
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    • Pictures of structures there - Kansas City
    Pictures of structures
    there
    by BruceDunning,
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    Is was designed by J.C. Nichols people in 1922, and was the first shopping center in the US. Besides the Spanish influence, there is Italian sculptures. Nichols got wealthy by building around the area and further to the south. This transformed a swampy and flooding area into a mecca.

  • Website: http://www.countryclubplaza.com/
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    Country Club Plaza: The Old Europe Style luxury
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    • BruceDunning
  • Updated By BruceDunning on May 19, 2009
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    • Turn around and see this again when you visit - Kansas City
    Turn around and see this
    again when you visit
    by BruceDunning,
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    The whole 12+ block and 55 acre complex was developed by J.C. Nichols to try and replicate the lovely and ornate feeling of Europe. They traveled extensively in Europe and brought back many treasures as well as setting the stage to build a retail shopping complex in the 1922 that would not be rivaled in the US. He tried to follow the structures and architecture of Seville. It worked, and this is one of the more popular spots for visitors to come to shop, eat and enjoy the numerous Old World style buildings, with even tiles, statues, fountains and much color. It mostly seems to have a Spanish style motif, but a number of sculptures are Italian designed and made. Craftsmen were imported from Europe to do much of the intricate work on the buildings and art here. The main architect was Edward Delk, who planned this in 1922 after mostly trips to Spain and Mexico for the vision of stucco building and tile motifs.

  • Directions: around 47th St in midtown
  • Website: http://www.countryclubplaza.com/
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    Country Club Plaza: Christmas lighting ceremony on the Plaza
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    • worldglobetrotter
  • Updated By worldglobetrotter on July 12, 2005
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    • Plaza Lights - Kansas City
    Plaza Lights
    by worldglobetrotter
    The 76th Annual Plaza Lighting Ceremony takes place on Thanksgiving evening, November 24th, 2005. The ceremony begins at 7:00 pm and the lights come on at 7:30.

    In celebration of the event, there will also be a fireworks display above the stage as well as at the Fairmont Hotel following the ceremony at 8 p.m.

    The Plaza Lighting Ceremony carries on its long tradition of helping Kansas City welcome the festive holiday season. 2005 marks the 76th Annual Plaza Lighting Ceremony.

    Each year, a special celebrity guest affiliated with Kansas City will do the honors of flipping the switch and illuminating the Plaza with colorful Christmas lights...previous celebs have been designer Kate Spade and Kansas City Chiefs' Trent Green.

    Kansas City Power & Light is very excited to sponsor such a long-standing Kansas City tradition for thesixth year. Kansas City Power & Light employees and their families will be collecting donations on Thanksgiving night
    for Salvation Army. Listen to that familiar sound of jingling bells.

    The Lighting Ceremony stage is located at 47th and Wyandotte, in front of Mark Shale and Restoration Hardware.

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  • Address: 4745 Central
  • Directions: For detailed directions, click over to: http://www.countryclubplaza.com/index.aspx?newsID=4&exCompID=47
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    Country Club Plaza: The Wornall House
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    • basstbn
  • Updated By basstbn on December 8, 2004
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    • Country Club Plaza - Kansas City
    by basstbn
    In 1858 John Wornall completed this brick farmhouse. During the Battle of Westport in 1864, (America's Civil War) both Union and Confederate armies used the farmhouse as a field hospital. Today the house has been restored to its original period to interpret the daily lives of a frontier farm family. Tours available.

  • Address: 146 W 61st Terrace, Kansas City, Missouri
  • Directions: Corner of 61st Terrace and Wornall Road, just a couple of minutes south of the Country Club Plaza and Loose Park
  • Website: www.wornallhouse.org
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    Country Club Plaza: Toy & Miniature Museum of Kansas City
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    • basstbn
  • Updated By basstbn on December 8, 2004
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    • Toy and Miniature Museum Entry - Kansas City
    Toy and Miniature Museum Entry
    by basstbn
    It's amazing how few local residents even know about this place, and it is a gem! This museum houses one of the finest scale miniature collections in the world. These are miniature - and in most cases - workable recreations of thousands of objects. Also included in the collection are antique toys including dolls, dolls' houses, trains, transportation toys, soldiers, forts, and much more. Open Wednesday thru Sunday. Check out their web site.

  • Address: 5235 Oak Street, Kansas City, Missouri
  • Phone: 816-333-2055
  • Directions: On Univ of Missouri Kansas City campus, southeast of Country Club Plaza, also south of Nelson-Atkins Museum
  • Website: www.umkc.edu/tmm
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    Country Club Plaza: Strolling Along Brush Creek
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    • yooperprof
  • Updated By yooperprof on January 9, 2004
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    • Plaza Ponds, or Flush Creek - Kansas City
    Plaza Ponds, or Flush Creek
    by yooperprof
    The Country Club Plaza is Kansas City's upscale shopping district. In recent years the city fathers have poured millions of dollars and a lot of concrete along Brush Creek in an attempt to alleviate the frequent flash floods that have plagued the area for decades. One good thing that has come out of the project is the extensive bike/walking path that now extends eastward from the Plaza for several miles. It passes several of Kansas City's most important and interesting cultural and recreational sites.

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  • Directions: East of the Plaza
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    Country Club Plaza: Country Club Plaza Architecture
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    • BruceDunning
  • By BruceDunning on May 19, 2009
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    • View right out of Spain - Kansas City
    View right out of Spain
    by BruceDunning, 4 more photos
    It was an idea created by J. C. Nichols, a real estate developer in the area. After he started building some of the first subdivisions to the south of the city, he believed they needed an upscale place to shop and stroll, while he made money form that in addition. In 1922 he worked over an area that before was a swamp, and converted it into a show place and the country's first shopping center. Today it has over 150 shops and restaurants, and many office facilities interspersed around. Prices are still upscale, and many tourists come here to shop for the high end and locals come here to be seen and be in the know. The architecture is form a pattern styled from Spain, where Nichols took trips. He also brought back many artifacts, statues, and murals and they are displayed throughout the 55 acre site. The theme is a pattern taken form Seville Spain

  • Website: http://www.countryclubplaza.com/plaza72b6.html?pgID=893
  • Other Contact: http://map.countryclubplaza.com/
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    Country Club Plaza: Country Club Statues and Monuments
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    • BruceDunning
  • Updated By BruceDunning on May 19, 2009
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    • Statue of Giraldillo to emulate Sevile of same - Kansas City
    Statue of Giraldillo to
    emulate Sevile of same
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    Throughout the complex are statues, monuments and colorful tiles on the facades of buildings and roofs. Architect Delk designed much of this wonder along with input from Nichols. he went to Europe many times and brought back ideas as well as artifacts and items to display in the shopping center.

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    Country Club Plaza: Carriage Rides at Country Club Plaza
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  • Updated By basstbn on December 24, 2002
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    • Country Club Plaza - Kansas City
    by basstbn
    Bundle up with your honey or your kiddies and take a ride in a horse-drawn carriage to view the color of the Christmas decorations.

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    Country Club Plaza: Christmas at the Country Club Plaza
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  • Updated By basstbn on December 24, 2002
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    • Country Club Plaza - Kansas City
    by basstbn
    There's a special feeling of festivity during the holiday seasons at the Country Club Plaza in Kansas City, Missouri - largely due to the traditional lighting of the Plaza, and thousands of pedestrians taking in the sights.

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