November 2017

1932 Arson Destroyed Fine Old Broadway Residential Hotel

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On a block of Broadway known today as the home of the Uptown Theater, the history of a home-turned-posh residential hotel has nearly faded. The Rochambeau, once the home of Valentine and Roanoke neighborhood “father” A.B.H. McGee, was called one of Kansas City’s finest luxury hotels. However, a fire in the 1930s erased it from […]

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Plaza Homes Replaced by “Modern” Apartments as Plaza Developed

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This block just north of the Plaza started out as a residential area, but as the Plaza developed over the early decades of the 1900s, several of its homes were replaced by “modern” apartments. At least one of the homes may have been moved to make way for multi-family structures, but both single-family residences and

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