March 2025

The Emil Rohrer Home: A Landmark of Concrete Construction

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4425 Terrace today, viewed from the west. Captured March 2025. Like most American cities, Kansas City suffered a lull of private home-building throughout the decade of the 1930s. Outside of the impressive public construction projects associated with the Ten-Year Plan, a scant few neighborhoods saw extensive development during this period, and many commercial and industrial […]

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Conversations with Scott Burnett

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Scott Burnett, a longtime resident of the Roanoke neighborhood,  is conducting audio interviews with interesting people in Kansas City.  So far, he’s talked to the owners of Fric and Frac, a Volker gathering place, and Kerry Browne and John McClain, owners of Browne’s Irish Market, the oldest Irish business outside of Ireland. Follow the conversations here.

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