Category: Homes & buildings
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Historic Athenaeum building changes hands – but remains a women’s organization
The Kansas City Athenaeum Club said it has sold its 101-year-old building at Linwood and Campbell to the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority DEED Foundation. Both groups are describing the transfer of the historic building as a perfect fit for the site with a century of history and now a past and a future involving important women’s organizations. Since…
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Do you remember the blocks of Warwick and Walnut between 40th and 41st?
In the 1940s, the entire block behind what was then the Rollins School at 40th and Main was a dense cluster of fairly new apartment buildings. Although most of these buildings on our featured block, 40th to 41st and Warwick to Walnut, are gone today, photos from the 1940s are a reminder of the popularity…
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Do you remember the blocks around the Bancroft School at 4300 Tracy?
On the corner of 43rd Street and Tracy, the renovated Bancroft School is bringing new life to the Manheim Park neighborhood. With plans for new infill housing in the area and residents rehabbing older homes, people are rediscovering Manheim, a neighborhood with a lot of history. The slideshow below shows the homes and apartments that…
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Nelson’s country mansion became site of Nelson-Atkins Museum
William Rockhill Nelson is best remembered as the founder of the Kansas City Star, but Nelson once said he enjoyed nothing more than building houses. Nelson the journalist was also an avid real estate developer and planner. He was among the first of the Kansas City elite to move south – helping start the movement…
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From dangerous building to Upcycling Center: dreams for the Acme Building
By contributing writer Mark Dillon, Editor, The Hyde Parker Underused since its original owner closed a commercial rug and textile cleaning business years ago, the Acme Cleansing Co. building failed to attract any bidders at the Aug. 27 Jackson County Sheriff’s Sale. It is now being transferred to the City of Kansas City’s new Land…
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Art Deco fans get a tour of some cool buildings in Midtown
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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Midtown history: Did you know Volker had a theater?
Above is a 1940 tax photo of the Giles Theatre at 1714 West 39th Street. Currently, Sahara Sheesha Hookah Bar is at this address. The films on the marquee are Flying Deuces (1939) with Laurel & Hardy, Santa Fe Marshall with Hopalong Cassidy (1940) a western, and Those High Grey Walls (1939), a prison story.