Do you remember the Belmont Hotel and the block of Linwood between Campbell and Harrison?
The former Belmont Hotel, vacant since the mid-1980s, has seen variety of uses since it was opened as a hotel in 1912. It is currently set for redevelopment as market-rate apartments.
A hulking white building at 911 E. Linwood was in the news ...
UMKC starting new neighborhood council
UMKC is inviting residents of the neighborhoods around it to join a new advisory council. The University says it is replacing the Volker Neighborhood Council, which operated from 2002-2015, with the Neighborhood Advisory Council. The council ...
Drexel Hall, built by shrewd businesswoman, has seen a century of history
Drexel Hall, site of much Midtown history, sits at the corner of Linwood and Baltimore. View here is from Baltimore with Linwood on the top left.
It would be easy to drive past Drexel Hall at the corner of Linwood and Baltimore day after day ...
Do you remember the 4200 blocks of Wyoming and Terrace in the Volker neighborhood?
The Swedish Covenant Evangelical Church at the corner of 42nd and Terrace served the surrounding Swedish community. 1940 photo courtesy Kansas City Public Library/Missouri Valley Special Collections.
The Swedish Evangelical Mission Church in ...
Do you remember this quiet residential block in Coleman Highlands?
This area of Coleman Highlands at W. 34th Street and Karnes Boulevard looks much as it did when it was developed in the early 20th century.
The Coleman Highlands block that is the focus of this week’s look back in history is a peaceful residential ...
Neighborhoods show up to oppose payday loan proposal
The 1700 block of Westport Road, where neighbors are fighting a proposed payday loan establishment.
Neighborhoods showed up in force yesterday at City Hall to object to a proposed payday loan business on Westport Road, but didn’t get a chance ...
Do you remember this block of the Roanoke neighborhood?
A home near Valentine Road and Bellevue in 1940.
The Roanoke neighborhood, developed from around 1900 to 1920, has always made a strong effort to keep its homes single family. While other neighborhoods in Midtown often saw their homes divided ...
Do you remember the blocks of Warwick and Walnut between 40th and 41st?
In the 1940s, the entire block behind what was then the Rollins School at 40th and Main was a dense cluster of fairly new apartment buildings. Although most of these buildings on our featured block, 40th to 41st and Warwick to Walnut, are gone ...
Midtown residents hope PorchfestKC will continue
PorchFest 2014 in the West Plaza neighborhood.
Since word leaked out this week that the popular PorchFestKC was looking for a new home, residents across the city have been urging their neighborhood associations to try to get the music ...
Do you remember the corner of 39th and Summit and a theater that showed Mexican movies?
In 1940, the Roanoke Theater near 39th and Summit was a typical neighborhood theater. But by the end of the decade, it had changed its format to show Mexican movies, attracting huge crowds from across Kansas City.
A 1909-1950 Sanborn Fire Insurance ...
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