One of the former apartment hotels on Armour Boulevard, the Newbern, celebrated its grand reopening last week. The Newbern’s history tells a tale of the glory days of Armour Boulevard, its decline, and its new role as Midtown’s major apartment corridor. MAC Properties, a developer who has renovated. ts on Armour, spent more than a […]
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Like much of Midtown Kansas City, this block of Hyde Park from 38th to 39th from Troost to Harrison became populated in the first decade of the 20th century as the growing population of Kansas City moved south. An earlier map of the block from 1891 shows lots had been divided and laid out in
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Much has changed along Armour Boulevard since the early 1900s, but one block, the north side of Armour to 34th Street from Campbell to Charlotte, remains much the same. One of the Armour mansions is no longer there, but the remaining homes of the block look pretty much the same as when they were built.
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