Tag: Broadway Boulevard
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Long-forgotten L.A. Allen home stood at Valentine and Broadway
Midtown Kansas City has a number of important corners, often where major streets and streetcar lines came together, and one of those is the intersection of Broadway Boulevard and Valentine Road. The southwest corner is well-known now as the site of the Uptown Theater. But before the Uptown was built in the late 1920s, an…
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Do you remember this block of Westport Road from Broadway to Central?
Although Westport is best known for its role as a frontier trading outpost, few remnants of that pioneer past remain standing. The Westport we know today, including this block from Westport Road to Archibald and from Broadway to Central, was mostly built in the early years of the 20th century, with Westport Road making the…
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Do you remember the block where Walgreens and the Blarney Stone now stand on Broadway?
The east side of the 3800 block of Broadway is dominated these days by Walgreens and a couple of popular local bars, the Blarney Stone and Chez Charlie, that we wrote about last week. But there’s a sweet sad story about the history of the block – once the home of a Kansas City mother who…
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Do you know the history of the 3100 block of Broadway?
Today, the 3100 block of Broadway is made up of commercial office towers, medical and community college buildings. But as recently as 1940, the block looked completely different. It was then dotted with large family homes like that of the O’Rielly family at 3100 Broadway (the current site of the Penn Tower office building).…
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Do you recognize this Midtown street before 1920?
Like other commercial corridors in Midtown today, this street started its life as a residential area. But in the 1920s, it evolved into the commercial corridor it is today, with businesses and apartments taking the place of stately homes that had once stood along it. If you guess it was Broadway Boulevard, you’d be correct.…