Category: Historic districts
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Union Cemetery receives national designation
Union Cemetery, the final resting place for many of Kansas City, Westport, and Midtown’s pioneers, has been added to the National Register of Historic Places Kansas City’s oldest public cemetery is maintained by the Union Cemetery Historical Society. The cemetery is in the historic Union Hill neighborhood, established in 1857 and one of the oldest…
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Do you know the history of this Plaza block, 47th to 48th and Summit?
A row of three iconic apartment buildings at the back of the Bloch Cancer Survivors Park on the Plaza is threatened by demolition, as we reported last week. So we’re taking a look back at the two blocks around the apartments, from W. 47th to W. 48th Streets, from Roanoke Parkway to Jefferson, to get…
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Halloween history: Union Cemetery’s roots
For a little bit of Halloween trivia, we enjoyed an article about Union Cemetery, Missouri’s oldest public burial place. Union Cemetery sits on 27 acres of land at 227 E. 28th Terrace. The parks department tells us it got many of its permanent residents in the 1850s, following a cholera epidemic that filled up cemeteries…
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Gillham fountain helped launch architecture preservation movement
Bridget Moss of South Hyde Park won our third fountain contest by identifying the Eagle Scout Memorial Fountain. She gets two tickets to the Jiggle Jam Family festival over Memorial Day weekend, which unfolds around the fountain at Crown Center. The Eagle Scout fountain at 39th Street and Gillham Road was dedicated in 1968 and…