St. Regis Hotel
A stately family hotel built in 1914 by Howard Vrooman and designed by Owens & Payson, architects. At the time of its opening, the St. Regis was one of the most fashionable establishments in the city. Her elaborate parlors were lined with luxurious fabrics and clad with Italian marble shipped across the Atlantic from Sienna. A state of the art ventilation system swept the air of the billiard room and "whisked away tobacco smoke that springs jauntily from the lips of the players.” Though not a particularly tall building, a topographical location on the intersection of The Paseo and Lindwood placed her 9th floor ballroom at the highest point in Kansas City.
A host to a variety of tenants from Steel Magnate Theodore Gary, to Mrs. Searcy’s Tea Cup Inn, the building saw firsthand the ebb and tide of neighborhoods along The Paseo. Born of George Kessler’s Parks and Boulevards plan, which displaced hundreds of African American families in the city, the area would come to face the height of racial tensions and blockbusting[en.wikipedia.org] initiatives in the decades to follow. A structure that bore witness to an odious, and often overlooked chapter of American city planning, the building is now an 85 unit retirement home on the corner of Lindwood Boulevard and The Paseo (briefly named for Civil Rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Feb. 2019, but changed back to "The Paseo" in Nov. 2019).
MODEL – 2328 triangles | 1024×1024
LOD – 130 | 128×256
LOT SIZE – 2 x 6
Level 4 High Density Residential
38 Households
