Westwood Park homes offered fireplaces, garages, and rec rooms

Small but modern homes close to the Country Club Plaza made for modern living in the early 1930s, as this block of Westwood Park filled in. This photo was taken in 1940. Many of the homes on this Westwood Park block, between Liberty and Terrace ...

Plaza homes replaced by “modern” apartments as Plaza developed

While families came and went and homes were replaced with apartment buildings, the Charles McCallum family lived on this Plaza Westport block from at least the 1920s to the 1940s. McCallum was a Scottish-born carpenter and his widowed son, also ...

Owner expands beloved “dive” bar Chez Charlie vibe to Blarney Stone

Lawrence Mauzey, owner of Chez Charlie, at the bar’s vintage jukebox. Sponsored Post by the Uptown Arts District Call them neighborhood bars, dive bars, whatever: two watering holes in the Uptown Arts District have served Midtown for decades ...

Video: Lost homes of the Valentine neighborhood

A home on the 3100 block of Summit in 1940. Before Penn Valley Community College was built, several hundred homes filled in the area between 31st and 33rd Streets, from Broadway to Southwest Trafficway. In the late 1960s, communities across ...

Do you know the history of this Squier Park block?

The 3500 block of Troost in 1940. Do you remember any of these businesses? As part of our Uncovering History Project, the Midtown KC Post is taking a look at the 1940 tax assessment photos of each block in Midtown. Today, we look at residences ...

Do you know the history of this Heart of Westport block?

As part of our Uncovering History Project, the Midtown KC Post is taking a look at the 1940 tax assessment photos of each block in Midtown. The slideshow we have posted below shows the structures that existed that year. Today, we look at ...

Help the Midtown KC Post uncover history

Credit: Midtown KC Post Uncovering History Collection. At the Midtown KC Post, we cover daily news and bring you information about the community. But we’re also interested in the past and how Midtown got to be the place it is today. That’s ...

Regional bus effort drives forward

People are working to make it simpler to ride area buses, but it gets complicated. Thursday of next week, a study group is holding a public meeting to get input on how to co-brand a linked bus system. The brands for Johnson County buses, Kansas ...

Organ recipients thank donors at Valentine’s ceremony

Jason and Stacy Elam and their 11-year-old son, Brendan thanked an organ donor for saving Brenden’s life. Children’s Mercy Hospital thanked organ donors and their families for the gift of life at a ceremony on Saturday. The event for ...

Proposal for student housing on Troost is back

Photo from a Community Vision for St. Francis Xavier School, June 3, 2013. In 2012, the Kansas City Catholic diocese faced neighborhood opposition when it proposed to build student housing on Troost Avenue. Now the proposal seems to be alive ...