posted by Joe Lambe Fans of great architecture don’t need to leave the ‘hood to see some fine Art Deco buildings. In fact, two Art Deco tours hosted by the Historic Kansas City Foundation sold out last month. The tours came on the heels of two popular lectures by Architect Richard Farnan at the Kansas City Public Library. […]
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Review by Mark Dillon excerpted from the Hyde Parker newsletter One gets a sense of the passion that KCMO baby boomers had back in the early 1970s in the final chapter of Kansas City’s Historic Hyde Park. First time authors Pat Alley and Don Boley recount the birth of the modern Hyde Park Neighborhood Association,
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A new book celebrating the 100-year history of the Redemptorist Church at 3333 Broadway notes the church was once the “center of the Catholic universe in Midtown.” It chronicles the relationships between the church and the neighborhoods around it as Kansas City grew and changed. Among the milestones the book records: The Book Redemptorist Church: Our
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