Midtown was built by immigrants, Catholics, Jews, formerly enslaved people, and those who came from all over the United States. Dumped into one big melting pot.
The Swedish Evangelical Mission Church in the Volker neighborhood was once a center of Swedish life in Midtown. In 1940, the church still stood at the corner of 42nd and Terrace Streets. The history of the surrounding block shows the diverse cultures that settled the area, with Swedish and other immigrants moving into the homes […]
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Homes in the Center City neighborhood at 33rd and Troost around 1900. In the early 1900s, developers such as the Cowherd Brothers were building “modern” middle-class homes across what is now Midtown. One area where development was occurring was today’s Center City neighborhood, from 31st to Armour Boulevard and Troost to the Paseo. Center City’s strategic
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The Kansas City St. Patrick’s Day parade – said today to be the 6th largest in the country – started out strong in 1873, but by 1891, anti-Catholic sentiment drove it to a close. It wasn’t until 1973 that a conversation in a cocktail lounge brought it back to life. And for a while, after
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