Homes and Residents
The district includes many homes by or after plans of many noted architects, including Frank Lloyd Wright, McKim, Mead, and White, Louis Curtiss, and Mary Rockwell Hook. Several homes are listed on the National Register of Historic Places, or its subset, the National Register of Historic Homes.
Notable residents of the Country Club District have included:
- Mayor Harold Roe Bartle
- Mayor Richard L. Berkley
- H&R Block founder Richard Bloch
- Senator Kit Bond
- Major League Baseball Hall of Famer George Brett (baseball)
- author Evan S. Connell
- Hallmark Cards chairman Donald J. Hall, Sr.
- Hallmark Cards founder Joyce Hall
- composer John Kander
- businessman R. Crosby Kemper Jr.
- pharmaceutical magnate Ewing Kauffman and his wife Muriel Kauffman
- United States Senator Claire McCaskill
- UCLA and KU chancellor Franklin David Murphy
- political boss Tom Pendergast
- Ambassador Charles H. Price II
- columnist Calvin Trillin
- professional golfer Tom Watson
- Mayor Charles Wheeler.
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Famous quotes containing the words homes and/or residents:
“Of course we will continue to work for cheaper electricity in the homes and on the farms of America; for better and cheaper transportation; for low interest rates; for sounder home financing; for better banking; for the regulation of security issues; for reciprocal trade among nations and for the wiping out of slums. And my friends, for all of these we have only begun to fight.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)
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—For the State of Iowa, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)