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We would like to provide the residents of  Mission Hills  a basic history overview.


Welcome to the Mission Hills Home page. The Mission Hills Home page provides as much information as possible on Mission Hills. Knowing Mission Hills’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Mission Hills’s Home page, you will also find Mission Hills’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Mission Hills has a population of 3563. 49.2% of Mission Hills’s inhabitants are Male, and 50.8 are female. 77.4% of Mission Hills is married and 100% own their own home. The Average Home price is $964,299. Household median income in Mission Hills is $250,001, and the individual median income is $110,114. Mission Hills’s Ethnic is the following: White(93.5%), Asian(5.8%), Hispanic(2.2%), Multiple(0.7%).


An Indian mission was established at the town's site in the 1830s, hence the name of the later settlement.The city started as a planned upscale community for the elite by J.C. Nichols to be built around the Mission Hills Country Club (Kansas) on the hills above Brush Creek just south of the Shawnee Methodist Mission.


Most of the country club's property is in Kansas but its original clubhouse was in Kansas City, Missouri, allowing it to serve liquor, which was prohibited on the Kansas side. Nichols laid out plans in 1914. He had developed the country club to enhance the value of his Kansas properties after discovering that upscale buyers were reluctant to live on the Kansas side of the state line.Adjoining the club Nichols established the Community Golf Club.


After it dramatically grew, it moved to what today is the Kansas City Country Club. Nichols lured the Kansas City Country Club to take over the land, and the Community Golf Club went on to establish the Indian Hills Country Club. Together, the three clubs became the most prestigious in the Kansas City metropolitan area; many rank them in order of prestige: Kansas City first, Mission Hills second, and Indian Hills third.Nichols opposed incorporation of the community fearing that a city would not adequately meet the needs of its residents or properly enforce housing covenants.


Consequently, the Mission Hills Home Company was founded on August 18, 1914. One of the most publicized early enforcements involved forbidding the family of a sick woman to enclose her porch with glass.Faced with prospects of annexation by neighboring relatively lower income communities seeking its wealthy tax base, Mission Hills incorporated as a city in 1949.Many of the early houses were designed by Clarence E.


Shepherd, Edward Tanner, and Edward Buehler Delk.The city's most distinctive landmark, which is used on the official city seal, is the Verona columns and reflecting pool at the intersection of Ensley Lane, Mission Drive and Overhill Road. They were conceived by landscape architect S. Herbert Hare in 1924.In 1928 Ernest Hemingway and his wife, Pauline, stayed at the house of W.


Malcolm and Ruth Lowry at 6435 Indian Lane. During this time, Hemingway wrote A Farewell to Arms. He later gave an autographed copy of the book to Don Carlos Guffey, the Kansas City doctor who delivered his son Patrick. The inscription, which is now in the University of Missouri-Kansas City library, said "...with much admiration and grateful remembrance of a Caesarean that was beautifully done and turned out splendidly."


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