Westwood Hills, often referred to as ´The Most Beautiful Little City in KansasĦ, is a hilly, brook-bisected area in the northeastern-most part of Johnson County. It is not to be confused with the earlier J.C. Nichols Company neighborhood of Westwood Park (on the Missouri side) nor with the larger City of Westwood, Kansas (beyond Rainbow Boulevard). It is a tiny City nestling against the State Line, midway north of today˙s Shawnee Mission Parkway. The first home was built in Westwood Hills in 1922. From its beginnings, Westwood Hills˙ long suit has been it architectural mix. No look-alike, cookie-cutter houses, rather ones with very distinctive designs ? Tudor style, colonial, contemporary, and English.
Stability, like variety, seems basic to Westwood Hills. Despite change, the tiny neighborhood-cum-city appears remarkably unchanged. It is 5 minutes from the Country Club Plaza and 15 from downtown. It measures one long block east and west and four blocks north and south. It lies between State Line Road and churning Rainbow Boulevard in a microcosm of leafy green calm. An oasis replete with shade trees, a meandering brook, and at last count, 75 distinctive homes set on slightly ´wackerjawedĦ lots facing winding hilly streets. All this makes Westwood Hills so unique
