February 2019

Old Hyde Park Block Has Seen Many Changes Since Dr. Hunter’s Time

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I’m finding it hard to describe all the changes on this Old Hyde Park block in one overarching headline. The block is between Main Street and Grand Avenue, from 31st Terrace to 32nd Street, a little north of Costco. Just after 1900, the block was dominated by the home of prominent doctor D.W. Hunter, who was so […]

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Noted Architect Lived on This Roanoke Block of Well-off Families

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Kansas City architect E.O. Brostrom – designer of the Newbern Hotel, several churches and an advocate in the 1930s of tiny houses – was just one of the noted early residents of a Roanoke neighborhood block.  The homes in the area from W. 37th to W. 38th between Jarboe and Valentine were built between 1900 and 1930, when the

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