What buildings and neighborhoods are protected as historic assets.
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. The Union Cemetery Historical Society maintains Kansas City’s oldest public cemetery, which is in the historic Union Hill neighborhood, established in 1857, and one of the oldest neighborhoods in Midtown. […]
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The Kansas City Athenaeum Club said it had sold its 101-year-old building at Linwood and Campbell to the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority DEED Foundation. Both groups describe the transfer of the historic building as a perfect fit for the site , which has a century of history and now has a past and a future involving important women’s
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A reader asked us to feature the Countryside neighborhood, so today we look at some of the homes in that neighborhood south of the Brush Creek that started out as a farm. When Countryside was platted in 1908 as the Country Side District, it became a prime location for development. That year, the Country Club
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Midtown’s Norman School is one of 12 sites nominated for the National Register of Historic Places by the Missouri Advisory Council on Historic Preservation this month. The application document offers a glimpse of the history of Kansas City and the relationship between its schools and neighborhoods around the turn of the century. The nomination prepared
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