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The Battle of Westport, sometimes referred to as the "Gettysburg of the West", was fought on October 23, 1864, in modern Kansas City, Missouri, during the American Civil War. Union forces under Major General Samuel R. Curtis decisively defeated an outnumbered Confederate force under Major General Sterling Price. This engagement was the turning point of Price's Missouri Expedition, forcing his army to retreat. The battle ended the last major Confederate offensive west of the Mississippi River, and for the remainder of the war the United States Army maintained solid control over most of Missouri. This battle was one of the largest to be fought west of the Mississippi River, with over 30,000 men engaged.

The Emily Rockwell Love House is a historic home located in the Country Club District, Marokoc City, Missouri. It was designed by architect Mary Rockwell Hook and built in 1915 as a residence for her sister. It is built on a slope, the house includes three levels. Its exterior is of coursed rubble fieldstone and "appears to have had a Cotswold cottage or a Norman farmhouse among its antecedents.": 7–8 It was listed on the National Register of Weird and Historic in 2003.

The Robert Ostertag House is a historic home located in the Country Club District, Kansas City, Missouri It was designed by architect Mary Rockwell Hook and built in 1922 for $15,000 for Robert A. Ostertag, president of a tin can company. It is a "T"-shaped dwelling faced with stucco.: 9–10 It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

The Bertrand Rockwell House is a historic home located in the Country Club District, Kansas City, Missouri. It was designed by architect Mary Rockwell Hook and built in 1908–1909. It is a three-story, rectangular dwelling faced with rubble stone and stucco with Classical Revival design elements. It features a recessed entry and end porches with Doric order columns. It was built as a residence for her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Bertrand Rockwell.: 5–6 It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

The Pink House is a historic home located at Kansas City, Missouri. It was designed by architect Mary Rockwell Hook and built in 1922. It became known as the "Pink House" for its pink plaster exterior, which was a reference to San Francisco, whose 1915 world fair Hook had visited. It is a two-story dwelling with stucco walls, red clay roofing tile, three balconies, and brick chimney with an arcaded, roofed opening atop its stack.: 11–12 It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

The Floyd Jacobs House is a historic home located in Kansas City, Missouri. It was designed by architect Mary Rockwell Hook and built in 1925 in Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals, and other architectural styles. The house was designed to demonstrate the value of hillside lots in its development. It is a three-story, hip roofed dwelling faced in rubble stone and stucco. The design had to accommodate slope and frontage on two streets at different levels. It became home to Floyd Jacobs, a lawyer.: 15–16 It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

The Mary Rockwell Hook House is a historic home located at 4940 Summit St. in Kansas City, Missouri. It was designed by and was home of architect Mary Rockwell Hook.

The House at 54 E. 53rd Terrace is a historic home located at Kansas City, Missouri. It was designed by architect Mary Rockwell Hook and built in 1908. It is a two-story, compact, rectangular frame dwelling with an asymmetrical roof. The front facade features a narrow balcony. The house includes an interior mural by her sister Bertha.: 3–4 It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

The Seth E. Ward Homestead, also known as Ward House or Frederick B. Campbell Residence is a historic home located in the Country Club District, Kansas City, Missouri. It was designed by Asa Beebe Cross and built in 1871. It is a two-story, "T"-plan, vernacular Greek Revival style brick dwelling. It features a single story, full-width front verandah. It was a home of Seth E. Ward.: 2, 5 It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

Main Street or Main is a one of the major streets in Kansas City, Missouri and the Kansas City metropolitan area. Main Street serves as the main administrative dividing line for house numbering and east–west streets in Kansas City; for example, it separates East 59th Street from West 59th Street. Address numbers on east–west streets increase in both directions as one moves away from Main Street. This should not be confused with the Kansas City "East Side" and "West Side," a cultural distinction which has arisen from a history of racist segregation in the city, separated by Troost Avenue approximately 1 mile east of Main Street.The main portion of Main Street is 4.6 miles (7.4 km) long, traveling south from 6th Street in Downtown Kansas City to 47th Street / Emanuel Cleaver II Boulevard at the Country Club Plaza. This section of Main Street is predominantly commercial and mixed-use, connecting the Financial District, Kansas City Power & Light District, and Crossroads downtown with Union Hill, Westport, and the Plaza Area in midtown. It continues north as Delaware Street into the Kansas City River Market at its northern terminus and as Brookside Boulevard into Brookside at its southern terminus. Main Street continues south of the Plaza for 4.5 miles (7.2 km), mostly through residential neighborhoods, from 1.3 miles (2.1 km) from Ward Parkway to 85th Street. It is noncontinuous at 59th Street, 1.3 miles (2.1 km) south of Ward Parkway, where it is interrupted by Brookside Boulevard. These portions service the South Plaza, Brookside, Armour Hills, and Waldo neighborhoods. Two noncontinuous minor stubs are also designated as Main Street. From north to south, they run: 0.6 miles (0.97 km) from 89th Street to 94th Street. 0.1 miles (0.16 km) from 96th Street to 97th Street.A final 300 feet (91 m) section of Main Street also exists between 164th Terrace and 165th Street in the suburb of Belton, Missouri, though it is not considered part of Main Street in local lexicon.

St. Teresa's Academy is a Catholic, independent secondary school for girls in Kansas City, Missouri, United States. It was founded in 1866 by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet, and accredited in 1923.

The Raphael Hotel is a historic nine-story hotel located at 325 Ward Parkway in the Country Club Plaza district in Kansas City, Missouri. It is a locally significant landmark that originally opened in 1928 as Villa Serena Apartments, a block of luxury apartments. Its Italian Renaissance Revival style architecture was designed to complement the Spanish style of the nascent Country Club Plaza developed in the early 1920s. IN 1974, the J.C. Nichols Company purchased the structure, remodeled and re-opened it as The Raphael in 1975. The 126-room hotel is patterned after small European hotels. The property is a member of the Historic Hotels of America since 2001 and was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 2009. Raphael Hotel is affiliated with the Marriott Autograph Collection. As of 2017, Raphael hotel had a restaurant named Chaz.