The
Country Club District is the name of a group of
neighborhoods comprising a historic upscale residential district in
Kansas City,
Missouri, and
Johnson County,
Kansas,
USA, developed by noted real estate developer
J.C. Nichols. 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.
Ward Parkway, a wide, manicured boulevard, traverses the district running south from the
Country Club Plaza, the first suburban shopping district in the United States.