Pendleton Heights is a historic neighborhood in Kansas City

Kansas City, Missouri

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, Missouri

Missouri

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, United States

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. It is located near the downtown loop

Downtown Kansas City

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, between Paseo

The Paseo

The Paseo is a major north–south parkway in Kansas City, Missouri. It runs in the center of the city: from Cliff Drive and Lexington Avenue on the bluffs above the Missouri River in the Pendleton Heights historic neighborhood, to 85th Street and Woodland Avenue...

 and Chestnut Trafficway to the west and east, and Independence Boulevard and Cliff Drive to the south and north.

Pendleton Heights is one of the oldest specifically residentially-designed neighborhoods in Kansas City, preceded only by Quality Hill

Quality Hill

Quality Hill is a historic neighborhood near downtown Kansas City, Missouri, USA, situated on a 200-foot-high bluff which overlooks the confluence of the Kansas River and Missouri River in the West Bottoms below....

. It was Kansas City's first developed suburb

Suburb

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, platted in the late nineteenth century from what had formerly been the 200 acre (0.809372 km²) Jones Farm. Accordingly, the neighborhood is recognized by the City of Kansas City as a historic district.

The neighborhood boasts Kansas City's first boulevard

Boulevard

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 (Independence Boulevard) plus two others (Maple Boulevard and Prospect Boulevard), three city parks (North Terrace Park, Independence Plaza Park and Maple Park), the original city reservoir

Reservoir

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, one of only two nationally-listed urban scenic byways

National Scenic Byway

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 and the largest collection of true Victorian

Victorian architecture

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 homes in the City. Architectural styles include "Traditional Victorian", American Craftsman

American Craftsman

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, American Foursquare

American Foursquare

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, Italianate

Italianate architecture

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, Eastlake

Eastlake Movement

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, Shingle-Style, Richardsonian Romanesque

Richardsonian Romanesque

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, "Folk Victorian", "Kansas City Shirtwaist", Beaux Arts, and grand Queen Anne

Queen Anne Style architecture

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. The neighborhood also includes a castle on the bluffs ("Tiffany Castle") overlooking the East Bottoms and the Missouri River

Missouri River

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 below. One home, the Philip E. Chappell house at 1836 Pendleton Avenue, has been listed in the National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places

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 since 1990.

Pendleton Heights hosts an annual Holiday Homes Tour around Thanksgiving when select Victorian homes decorated for the holiday season are open for tour.

The neighborhood is home to Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences

Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences

Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences is located in Kansas City, Missouri. George J. Conley, D.O., founded the University in 1916. Today, KCUMB consists of both a College of Osteopathic Medicine and a College of Biosciences...

.

See also

• List of neighborhoods in Kansas City, Missouri
• Pendleton Heights Neighborhood Association Web site