Norman School historical nomination highlights role in community
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 ...
Brad Pitt’s Foundation brags on Bancroft School Apartments and Kansas City
A two bedroom apartment after renovation. Photo courtesy Make It Right blog, C. Jackson.
Brad Pitt’s Make It Right Foundation joined local partners last weekend in cutting the ribbon on the refurbished Bancroft School Apartments.
The foundation ...
Armour Boulevard group to buy dull but useful building
MAC Properties, renovator of terra-cotta bejeweled historic properties along Armour Boulevard, is buying a dowdy 1960s office structure.
The Gillham Plaza building at 301 E. Armour may lack glamour but it will provide parking and other amenities ...
Historic homes open during Squire Park tour on Saturday
If historic houses and neighborhoods are your interest, you’ll love the Squier Park Homes Tour planned for this Saturday.
This year’s tour includes six of the neighborhood’s historic homes – and one front porch. Among the houses ...
Party at the Bellerive, renovation invokes its rich past
There will be a public party Tuesday, as Midtown’s historic Bellerive Hotel reopens as luxury apartments.
People can toast the days of Billie Holliday and Duke Ellington and hear live music from 5 to 8 p.m.
Those artists, along with Bob Hope, ...
Residents continue effort to save buildings on Armour
Residents of Old Hyde Park took their message to the street on Sunday. They are hoping to gather enough signatures on a petition to stop the city from approving the demolition of several buildings on Armour Boulevard.
Residents of a group called ...
Trolley tour of endangered buildings
How about a private tour of Kansas City’s most endangered buildings?
The Historic Kansas City Foundation is offering a trolley tour of the buildings on its list.
The tour on Sept. 8 at 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. starts on Baltimore between 18th and ...
Historic Squire Park home in search of a loving owner
The current owner, Joyce Miller, recently joined neighbors from Squire Park to clean up the property, hoping to attract a new owner.
Built of concrete in 1912 in what was the then wealthy suburb of Squire Park, Victor Beutner’s house was called ...
Endangered Luzier Cosmetics on Gillham designed by Nelle Peters
(The Midtown KC Post is profiling the buildings on the Historic Kansas City Foundation’s Most Endangered List for 2013. More about our series of stories.)
Like the past parked on a streamlined lot of the present, an ornate building with broken ...
Armour Boulevard proposal: everyone favors renovation but…
Photo by Mike Sinclair
Residents from around Armour Boulevard in Old Hyde Park sat down with a developer last night to consider the fate of four buildings at 100-118 Armour.
Only one thing is really clear from the meeting: in a perfect world, ...
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