DISCOVER UNITY VILLAGE
Where is Unity Village
Unity Village is a part of the Kansas City metropolitan areas, bordering Kansas City and Lee's Summit. Charles and Myrtle Fillmore founded the area in 1919 as a weekend getaway for employees of their downtown Kansas City Headquarters. It became known as Unity Farm and later expanded to an additional 1500 acres, including 12 farms.
The Sprawling Campus
Unity Village is a campus with historic buildings. The grounds dwellings are in the English Cotswold style as well as Mediterranean-inspired buildings designed by Waldo Rickert Fillmore (also known as Rickert), the second son of Charles and Myrtle Fillmore. The Tower and an office building then used for the Silent Unity Prayer Ministry opened in 1929 and are on the National Register of Historic Places.
Archival Home of the New Thought Movement
On March 15, 1953, the State of Missouri officially incorporated the land as Unity Village. It is now the world headquarters for the ongoing New Thought Spiritual Movement.