Overland Park
— — a quiet grid the prairie still edges.
Not only on a wall.
“A planned city in Johnson County, Kansas, south of the Missouri line and the Kansas City core. The streets are wide and the trees are old, and the Arboretum holds three hundred acres of native woodland against the edge of the development. The town has grown by design rather than by accident since William Strang laid out the first lots in 1905.
Overland Park, on ceramic.
Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.
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The place, in three passes.
Overland Park is the second-largest city in Kansas, with roughly 200,000 residents in the southwestern arc of metropolitan Kansas City. It sits in Johnson County, about fifteen miles south of downtown Kansas City, Missouri. The city was founded in 1905 by William B. Strang Jr., a railroad developer who laid out the original street grid along his Strang Line interurban railway. Today the city covers about 75 square miles and is anchored by Johnson County Community College and a long-standing corporate campus economy.
The Overland Park Arboretum and Botanical Gardens occupies 300 acres along Wolf Creek on the city's south side. The garden cycles hard with the Kansas seasons: redbud and daffodil in April, the Monet garden at peak through July, prairie grasses turning copper from late September, and the Luminary Walk lighting roughly eight thousand candles through the trees in November and December. The gardens were dedicated in 1991 on land transferred from the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks, and have been expanding into the native-woodland edge ever since.
Overland Park is reached by I-35 from downtown Kansas City (about a twenty-minute drive) or by Kansas City International Airport, twenty-five miles to the north. The Arboretum is open daily from sunrise to sunset, with a small admission fee. The Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art on the Johnson County Community College campus is free and houses one of the larger contemporary collections in the central United States. Deanna Rose Children's Farmstead, on the city's south side, is open seasonally and is a long-running family destination.