The Hanover Heights Historic District area was developed between 1912 and 1930. It is a district containing 90

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located between

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and Rainbow Boulevard to Olathe Boulevard and West 43rd Avenue in

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. It was placed on Register of Historic Kansas Places on December 2, 1989. It was placed on

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on May 17, 1990. 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. The KCSV operates under the Twitter usernam
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The district includes the Judge Louis R. Gates Residence (c. 1922–1923), a

Prairie style Prairie School is a late 19th- and early 20th-century architectural style, most common in the Midwestern United States. The style is usually marked by horizontal lines, flat or hipped roofs with broad overhanging eaves, windows grouped ...

residence at 4146 Cambridge Street, designed by

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, which was separately listed on the National Register in 1980. With .

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