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Take a motor trip over the boulevard system, going over Cliff Drive,
passing through Penn Valley Park and Swope Park and visit the Swope
Park Zoo; see Kansas City from the top of the R. A. Long Building or
Commerce Building; visit the Western Gallery of Art in the Public
Library Building; visit the stock yards and packing houses; go
through the big stores; see the Y. M. C. A. Building; inspect the
Armour-Swift Burlington Bridge as a remarkable piece of
engineering. Buildings to be noted particularly as interesting
specimens of architecture, in addition to the skyscrapers, are the
new Union Station, Convention Hall, the Jewish Temple on Linwood
Boulevard, the Second Christian Science Church, Thirty-first Street
and Troost Avenue; the Independence Boulevard Christian and Methodist
churches, the First Congregational Church at Admiral Boulevard and
Highland Avenue, Grace Episcopal Church, 415 West Thirteenth Street;
the First National Bank, the New England National Bank, the office
of The Star, the residence of R. L. Long, W. R. Nelson, the
residence districts worth seeing are Roanoke, Hyde Park, Rockhill,
Country Club and Sunset hill and Northeast.
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