Quality Hill, Kansas City
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Quality Hill
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View down Pennsylvania Avenue from the 1910s
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| Location | Kansas City, MO |
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| Architect | Louis S. Curtiss, Et al. |
| Architectural style | Queen Anne, Other |
| NRHP Reference # | 78001657 |
| Added to NRHP | July 7, 1978 |
Quality Hill is a historic neighborhood near downtown Kansas City, Missouri, USA, situated on a 200-foot-high bluff which overlooks the confluence of the Kansas and Missouri rivers in the West Bottoms below.
It is located on the west side of downtown, bounded by Broadway to the east, I-35 to the west, 7th Street to the north, and 14th Street to the south. The Kansas border is half a mile away through the West Bottoms. Since 1978, Quality Hill has been listed as an historic district on the National Register of Historic Places. Today, it includes residences, large businesses (including the headquarters of Kansas City Southern Industries and DST Systems Inc. and a large branch of the State Street Corporation), retail establishments, entertainment venues, two cathedrals, and private clubs.
Situated within fourteen blocks of the Missouri River itself, Quality Hill is the oldest established residential area in the Kansas City metropolitan area to remain continuously inhabited.
The Chouteau Society, a society dedicated to highlighting Kansas City's French origins, erected a signpost at the northwest corner of 11th and Washington streets, in both French and English, which states that the corner was the site of an early-18th-century French missionary church, the oldest structure known to have been built by Europeans in the region. This would have been during the era of French fur trappers who traveled the region's rivers. The first officially recorded church on the site was built in 1822 at the behest of François Chouteau, who is credited as the founder and first Euro-American permanent settler of Kansas City.
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