Detail View: Archivision Base to Module 9: Country Club Plaza

Preferred Title:	Country Club Plaza
Image View:	Corner of Ward Parkway and Broadway, looking north, showing the Time Tower
Creator:	Edward Buehler Delk (American architect, 1885-1956); Jesse Clyde Nichols (American real estate developer, 1880-1950)
Location:	site: Kansas City, Missouri, United States
Location Note:	four miles south of downtown; between 45th and 51st streets to the north and south and between Broadway and Madison Street to the east and west
GPS:	+39.041323-94.591813
Date:	opened 1923 (creation)
Cultural Context:	American
Style Period:	Spanish Colonial Revival; Twentieth century
Work Type 1:	shopping center
Classification:	architecture
Material:	stucco; brick; concrete; tile
Technique:	construction (assembling)
Measurements:	55 ac (area); 130 ft (height, Giralda Tower)
Subjects:	architecture; business, commerce and trade; cityscape; genre; mixed-use developments; retail shops; Timekeeping; clock tower; tilework
Description:	The Country Club Plaza was the first shopping center in the world designed to accommodate shoppers arriving by automobile. Established in 1923 by J. C. Nichols and designed architecturally after Seville, Spain, the Plaza comprises high-end retail establishments, restaurants, and entertainment venues, as well as offices. The neighborhoods surrounding the Plaza consist of apartment buildings and upscale houses, especially those of the Country Club District built along Ward Parkway on the Plaza's southern and southwestern side. The Country Club Plaza is named in the Project for Public Spaces' list "60 of the World's Great Places". The Plaza's parking is discretely concealed in underground garages, rooftops or behind shops, making the area more compact and pedestrian friendly. (Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page)
Collection:	Archivision Addition Module Five
Identifier:	1A2-US-KC-KCP-B6
Rights:	© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.