Friends of Sacred Structures helps preserve Midtown churches
At this week’s Troost Alliance meeting, Friends of Sacred Structures member Joanie Shields discussed the founding and work of the Friends of Sacred Structures. FOSS helped the Revolution United Methodist in Westport, among others in Midtown ...
Endangered early farmstead represents unique style
Photo credit: Missouri Alliance for Historic Preservation
(The Midtown KC Post is profiling the buildings on the Historic Kansas City Foundation’s Most Endangered List for 2013. More about our series of stories.)
Being listed as an important ...
Endangered hospital once served African Americans
Photo by Mike Sinclair.
(The Midtown KC Post is profiling the buildings on the Historic Kansas City Foundation’s Most Endangered List for 2013. More about our series of stories.)
The deteriorating Wheatley Provident Hospital is the only remaining ...
Developer wants to demolish, replace Armour apartments
The design for a new 40-unit apartment MAC Properties wants to build after demolishing four buildings along Armour Boulevard.
A developer has a new plan for several buildings on West Armour between Broadway and Main in the Old Hyde Park neighborhood.
MAC ...
Crossroads building is endangered, but not slated for demo
Photo by Mike Sinclair.
(The Midtown KC Post is profiling the buildings on the Historic Kansas City Foundation’s Most Endangered List for 2013. More about our series of stories.)
The Lane Blueprint Building, among the oldest in the Crossroads, ...
Efforts continue to save the endangered Disney Building
Photo by Mike Sinclair.
(The Midtown KC Post is profiling the buildings on the Historic Kansas City Foundation’s Most Endangered List for 2013. More about our series of stories.)
In 1922, Walt Disney rented an office at a brick building in ...
Knickerbocker Apartments, once lavish, now endangered
The Knickerbocker Apartments at 510-531 Knickerbocker Place in the Valentine neighborhood is among the ten most endangered buildings in Kansas City, according to the Historic Kansas City Foundation.
Update: Oct. 10, 2017 The Knickerbocker apartments ...
Get a look inside the Katz Drug Store building
The Katz Drug Store building at Westport Road and Main Street, built in 1934, is one of Midtown’s most iconic.
Now you can get a look at the inside of the building as well as a preview of what’s planned.
But there’s a small ...
What next for park maintenance building in Hyde Park?
Originally built in 1905 as a stable and storage barn for the parks department, this building at 39th and Gillham is once again available for a new use. Paul Mesner Puppets had planned to use the building, but recently said renovation would ...
Whole Person cuts the official ribbon on Main Street headquarters
The Whole Person invited neighbors in to its newly-opened headquarters yesterday. The building is being widely celebrated as perhaps the first building on the Historic Register to also incorporate universal design, meaning the building is completely ...
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