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Waldo is a neighborhood located in south Kansas City, Missouri, that has continued to maintain its own unique character, even though it was annexed by Kansas City in 1909. Waldo's boundaries are Gregory Boulevard on the north to 85th Street on the south, and Holmes Street on the east to Ward Parkway on the west.

Southwest Early College Campus, often shortened to Southwest, was a university preparatory middle school and high school campus located at 6512 Wornall Road in Kansas City, Missouri, 64113, United States. It was part of the Kansas City, Missouri School District. The school closed on May 17, 2016.

St. Andrew's Episcopal Church is a parish of the Episcopal Church in Kansas City, Missouri, in the Diocese of West Missouri. The church is located on the southwest corner of Meyer Boulevard and Wornall Road in Kansas City, Missouri. The Reverend John Spicer is rector. The Reverend Anne Hutcherson is associate rector. The Reverend Melissa Roberts George is the assistant rector. The deacon is the Ven. Bruce Bower. St. Andrew's holds worship services with Eucharist three times every week. The church has approximately 1,500 members and welcomes all people to worship. The rector, associate rector, assistant rector, and deacon are the spiritual leaders at St. Andrew's. An 18-member vestry, led by a senior warden and junior warden, serves as lay leaders. Melissa Rock is the current Senior Warden and Lora Kokjer serves as Junior Warden. The vestry and clergy share mutual responsibility for establishing and fulfilling the church's mission and vision. Six vestry members are elected for a three-year term each year in January at an all-parish meeting. Nominations take place in the summer prior to the January election.

Armour Hills is a neighborhood located in Kansas City, Missouri. It is bounded on the west by Brookside Road, on the north by 65th Street, on the east by Oak Street and the south by Gregory Boulevard. The name of this area derives from the fact that the land was owned by members of the Armour family of the Armour and Company. The land was purchased from the Armours by J.C. Nichols in May 1922, and construction continued for the next decade. Nichols stipulated that each home should look unique. So, the 1,068 homes in this neighborhood range from Tudor Revival, Cape Cod, and Dutch Colonials built with brick, stone, and wood in many different sizes.

Mission Hills is a city in Johnson County, Kansas, United States, and part of the Kansas City Metropolitan Area. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 3,498. The east city limits is the Kansas-Missouri state line at State Line Road. Mission Hills was originally developed by noted Kansas City developer J. C. Nichols beginning in the 1920s as part of his Country Club District plan.

The Brookside Shopping District is located in the Brookside neighborhood of Kansas City, Missouri at 63rd Street & Brookside Boulevard. This district was founded in 1920 as Kansas City's first suburban shopping center.

Brookside is a collection of neighborhoods located in Kansas City, Missouri, bounded by 55th Street on the North, Gregory on the South, Ward Parkway on the West, and Troost on the East. The neighborhood contains the Brookside Shopping District. Brookside makes up one portion of the Country Club District, the largest contiguous master-planned community in the United States. Brookside, and the Country Club District, was designed by J.C. Nichols. The John Wornall House is a local landmark on the National Register of Historic Places located in Brookside.

The Country Club District is the name of a group of neighborhoods comprising a historic upscale residential district in Kansas City, developed by noted real estate developer J.C. Nichols. The district was developed in stages between 1906 and 1950, and today is home to approximately 60,000 and includes such well-known Kansas City neighborhoods as Sunset Hill and Brookside in Missouri, Mission Hills, Fairway, and the oldest parts of Prairie Village in Kansas, making it the largest planned community built by a single developer in the United States. Ward Parkway, a wide, manicured boulevard, traverses the district running south from the Country Club Plaza, the first suburban shopping district in the United States.

The John Wornall House Museum is a historic house museum in Kansas City, Missouri. The museum, located at 6115 Wornall Road in the Brookside area of Kansas City, is furnished to represent the daily life of a prosperous, pre-Civil War family.

The Waldo water tower, officially called the Frank T. Riley Memorial, is a white, castle-like tower in the Waldo neighborhood of south Kansas City, Missouri, United States.

[1] University Academy is a Pre-Kindergarten through 12th grade college-preparatory charter public school in Kansas City, Missouri. University Academy serves approximately 1,100 students in pre-kindergarten through 12th grade who reside in the Kansas City Missouri Schools District (“KCMSD”). As a charter public school, University Academy admits students on the basis of a random lottery drawn from a pool of applicants. All applicants must reside within the boundaries of the Kansas City Missouri Schools District.

Indian Hills Country Club is a private club and golf course in Mission Hills, Kansas. The club was organized as the Community Golf Club in 1919 by J.C. Nichols on land adjoining Mission Hills Country Club. In 1922 it temporarily moved to land that is now Kansas City Country Club. Membership was open to anybody in the Nichols-developed subdivision of Mission Hills with an annual fee of $30 and $5 for each family member.In 1925, Kansas City Country Club took over the course and Nichols helped organize Indian Hills Country Club. A.W. Tillinghast designed the course.The three clubs became the most socially desirable in the Kansas City metropolitan area. The Nichols strategy to create the three clubs was to make Kansas more attractive to upscale buyers who had previously not wanted to leave Kansas City, Missouri.The original clubhouse was replaced in 1972. The new clubhouse was renovated from 1997 to 2001 and again in 2009.The course is an 18-hole, 6,474 yard par 70.