August 2018 - Midtown KC Post

Pioneering Photographer Was First Owner of This Roanoke Block

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It must have been quiet on this Summit Street block when D.P. and Sophia Thomson moved in around 1900. Although the Roanoke subdivision had been platted and laid out, it had been slow to develop. When the Thomsons moved in, theirs was the only home on the block that is today’s focus: Summit Street (now […]

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Dinner for 100 on this Southermoreland Block

The Southmoreland block between Warwick and McGee from 39th to 40th Streets has seen a lot of history – huge social events packed into its fine homes, a flu epidemic that impacted a funeral, and the ups and downs of pioneer families. Like many areas of Midtown, the block’s heyday came in the early 1900s, when expansion south