Too bad they didn't read the fine print that read - down the road you'll be paying astronomical property taxes, deer culling fees, parking fees and be considered the Slumset Hills by the elite.
An interesting old ad. Construction on the Liberty Tunnels began sometime shortly after the first of the year, 1919, and they opened for traffic in January, 1924. The ad doesn't have a date, but based on the wording my guess is that it ran in 1923. $450 to $1000 in 1923 is equivalent to $6,561.29 to $14,580.65 in 2017's funny-money.
As an aside and for what it's worth, I've lived here since 1975 and never could understand why the far eastern side of Mt. Lebanon is called "Sunset Hills." Why not "Sunrise Hills"; that would make more sense. I live on the far western side of Mt. Lebanon and have a beautiful view of the setting sun over the valley behind our house - especially in Winter. If anyplace has a claim to the title "Sunset Hills" it's the area of Bower Hill Road as it enters Scott Township.
The development of Mission Hills has actually been traced to a Kansas City suburb by the same name. Mt. Lebanon‟s Mission Hills was conceived by local real estate developer, Lawrence T. Stevenson, who served as a Director of the National Association of Real Estate Boards with his Kansas City counterpart, Jesse Clyde Nichols. The Kansas City development was begun in 1913, and Stevenson had gathered quite a bit of useful ideas from it before he began his Mt. Lebanon project in 1921. Among the features incorporated in both Mission Hills developments were gently curving streets that followed the natural contours of the land, park-like dividers on main streets, small triangular green spaces at the intersections of curving streets, and rolled curbs, the first such curbs east of the Mississippi.
Then check this out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_Club_District
"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."
Interesting - thanks. But if you look at a map of Kansas City you'll find "Sunset Hill" is on the western border of the city. I suppose geography wasn't a consideration at the time when our "Sunset Hill(s)" was named.
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Too bad they didn't read the fine print that read - down the road you'll be paying astronomical property taxes, deer culling fees, parking fees and be considered the Slumset Hills by the elite.
An interesting old ad. Construction on the Liberty Tunnels began sometime shortly after the first of the year, 1919, and they opened for traffic in January, 1924. The ad doesn't have a date, but based on the wording my guess is that it ran in 1923. $450 to $1000 in 1923 is equivalent to $6,561.29 to $14,580.65 in 2017's funny-money.
As an aside and for what it's worth, I've lived here since 1975 and never could understand why the far eastern side of Mt. Lebanon is called "Sunset Hills." Why not "Sunrise Hills"; that would make more sense. I live on the far western side of Mt. Lebanon and have a beautiful view of the setting sun over the valley behind our house - especially in Winter. If anyplace has a claim to the title "Sunset Hills" it's the area of Bower Hill Road as it enters Scott Township.
@Richard Gideon
Read page 28 - http://mtlebanon.org/DocumentCenter/Home/View/3631
The development of Mission Hills has actually been traced to a Kansas City suburb by the same name. Mt. Lebanon‟s Mission Hills was conceived by local real estate developer, Lawrence T. Stevenson, who served as a Director of the National Association of Real Estate Boards with his Kansas City counterpart, Jesse Clyde Nichols. The Kansas City development was begun in 1913, and Stevenson had gathered quite a bit of useful ideas from it before he began his Mt. Lebanon project in 1921. Among the features incorporated in both Mission Hills developments were gently curving streets that followed the natural contours of the land, park-like dividers on main streets, small triangular green spaces at the intersections of curving streets, and rolled curbs, the first such curbs east of the Mississippi.
Then check this out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_Club_District
"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."
That is VERY interesting, 10:24 PM. Thank you! I forwarded your comment to RG, in case he missed it.
Elaine
Interesting - thanks. But if you look at a map of Kansas City you'll find "Sunset Hill" is on the western border of the city. I suppose geography wasn't a consideration at the time when our "Sunset Hill(s)" was named.
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