Hanover Heights Neighborhood Historic District

Historic district in Kansas, United States

United States historic place


Hanover Heights Neighborhood Historic District
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district

Boulevard Apartments, part of the historic district
39°3′9″N 94°36′38″W / 39.05250°N 94.61056°W / 39.05250; -94.61056
Area	15.5 acres (6.3 ha)
Built	1921
Architect	Faulkner, W.P.; Shepard, Charles
Architectural style	Prairie School, Bungalow/Craftsman, Homestead;Foursquare
NRHP reference No.	90000776^[1]
Added to NRHP	May 17, 1990

The Hanover Heights Historic District area was developed between 1912 and 1930. It is a 15.5 acres (6.3 ha) district containing 90 contributing buildings located between State Line Road and Rainbow Boulevard to Olathe Boulevard and West 43rd Avenue in Kansas City, Kansas. It was placed on Register of Historic Kansas Places on December 2, 1989. It was placed on National Register of Historic Places on May 17, 1990.^[1]

In September 2012, it became the center point for The Kansas City Startup Village (KCSV), an entrepreneur-led, organic, grassroots initiative helping to solidify Kansas City as a premiere startup city in America.^[2] The KCSV operates under the Twitter username @KCSV and hashtag #KCSV. Google Fiber Ignites Kansas City Startup Scene

The district includes the Judge Louis R. Gates Residence (c. 1922–1923), a Prairie style residence at 4146 Cambridge Street, designed by Clarence Shepard, which was separately listed on the National Register in 1980.^[3]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
^ Farivar, Cyrus (November 14, 2012). "Google's blazingly fast Internet goes live in Kansas City". CNN. Retrieved July 7, 2020.
^ Martha Hagedorn-Krass (March 30, 1990). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Hanover Heights Neighborhood Historic District". National Park Service. Retrieved December 29, 2017. With 67 photos, most or all from 1989.