Midtown has more than two dozen unique neighborhoods and several commercial and cultural districts. No two are alike. They are all interesting.
Today’s slideshow features the 3400 block of Broadway and Central and the blocks of Armour Boulevard and 34th Streets between Broadway and Central. The Ellison Apartment Hotel at 300 West Armour in 1940. The area includes the historic Ellison Apartment Hotel at 300 West Armour and Warwick Cleaners at 3421 Broadway. In these 1940s photos, […]
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Armour Boulevard looking east from Campbell, 1905. Last week, Susan Hawks asked what we knew about the 3500 block of Campbell, and unfortunately, the answer is not very much. While the Kansas City Public Library has the 1940 photos of most blocks in Kansas City, this block is yet to be made available. So we’re
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Today, we examine residences and businesses in the Squier Park neighborhood, from Armour Boulevard south to 36th and Troost east to Forest. As you can see from the photos in the gallery below, Troost was packed with small local businesses that served the neighborhood, including the Lee Yun Laundry at 3535 Troost. Squier Park also
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Today, we look at residences and businesses in the South Hyde Park neighborhood, from 45th Street south to Brush Creek, from Gillham/Harrison to Troost. As you can see from the photos below and in this Sanborn Fire Insurance Map, Troost Avenue was dominated by auto-related businesses in 1940. The block included the Fire Department Hose Company
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The photos we have posted below show the structures that existed that year. A Sanborn Fire Insurance Map shows the Troostwood area developed after the turn of the century. Today, we look at residences and businesses in Troostwood, from 49th Street south to 49th Terrace and 51st Street, from Troost Avenue east to Forest and
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Our story and slide show yesterday about the area around Westport Road and Broadway raised a reader’s question. He asked if we knew anything about a livery stable that had once stood in the 300 block of Westport, just east of Broadway, near where Dave’s Stage Coach Inn stands today. Since it was a slow
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Today, we look at residences and businesses in Westport, in today’s Heart of Westport neighborhood and the Westport entertainment district. It is a small block, but you may well recognize a few businesses that have not changed that much over the years. The photos below show the rest of the homes and businesses on the
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Today, we examine residences in the Manheim Park neighborhood, from 39th Street south to 40th Street and Forest Avenue east to Tracy Avenue. Photos courtesy Kansas City Public Library, Missouri Valley Special Collections.
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As part of our Uncovering History Project, the Midtown KC Post is taking a look at the 1940 tax assessment photos of each block in Midtown. Today, we look at residences, businesses, and apartment buildings that were once considered part of the Valentine neighborhood but have since been demolished to make room for Penn Valley Community College. This
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In what is today the Old Hyde Park neighborhood, a group of French nuns once cared for Kansas City’s oldest residents, and folks flocked to running tracks, baseball, and athletic fields. It all took place around Locust Street from 31st to 33rd, in an area later called the “Chinese puzzle” because its confusing dead-end streets
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