Tag: Linwood Boulevard
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Newly-renovated Scottish Rite Temple Anchors Historic Linwood and Paseo Block
The Kansas City Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Temple is a massive structure that has fascinated those driving along Linwood and the Paseo for years. The Scottish Rite, the largest branch of Freemasonry, still uses the building for meetings and administration. Faced with the ever-soaring cost of maintenance, however, the group hopes a 2019 renovation will…
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Block of Boulevards Shifts from Residential in 1920s
If location is all-important in real estate, location along two boulevards must be even better. The intersection of Linwood Boulevard and The Paseo (now called Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard) historically attracted elite families who moved into substantial homes before the turn of the 20th century. However, the location also made the block a target…
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Newly-renovated Scottish Rite Temple Anchors Historic Linwood and Paseo Block
May 13, 2019 The Kansas City Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Temple is a massive structure that has fascinated those driving along Linwood and the Paseo for years. Last week, the Temple was opened for a public tour to showcase its renovations. The Scottish Rite, the largest branch of Freemasonry, still uses the building for meetings…
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A Midtown Hospital for Hemorrhoids
A hulking white building at 911 E. Linwood was in the news this week, with a developer successfully requesting assistance to overhaul it. The building – formerly a hotel, a nursing home and a government headquarters – is now slated to reopen as market-rate apartments in 2017. According to the Kansas City Star, developer Ted Sleder…
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Drexel Hall Built by Shrewd Businesswoman
It would be easy to drive past Drexel Hall at the corner of Linwood and Baltimore daily without knowing the layers of history within its walls. Beginning with its unusual beginnings as a spur-of-the-moment purchase by a shrewd businesswoman, to its early days of concerts, dances, and suffrage association meetings, to the fiery union rallies…
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Business Flourished at Corner of Linwood and Gillham Plaza
It’s a Jiffy Lube today, but the building at the corner of Linwood and Gillham Plaza once housed Sight Brothers Motor Company, Kansas City’s oldest Chevrolet dealer. Next door to the south, when this photo was taken in 1940, many people attended funerals at the Stine & McClure Chapel, and next door on the west…
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Historic Athenaeum Building Changes Hands
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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Changes at Linwood and Troost
One of Midtown’s most historical corners is the intersection of Linwood and Troost, where a distinctive terra cotta structure, open on the street level, stands on the northeast corner. The area was once part of a very exclusive section of Kansas City known as Millionaires Row, where families tired of living in the crowded city moved…
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Linwood Boulevard Had a Grand Hotel and More
Seen from above today, this block of Kansas City – Linwood Boulevard to 31st Street – from Campbell to Harrison is fairly deserted. But a hundred years ago, the block was home to a grand hotel, an essential women’s club and a row of businesses along 31st Street. Our historic tour of the block begins with the…
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North Hyde Park Block Housed Ed’s Dainty Corsages
Today, we look at residences, businesses, and apartment buildings in the North Hyde Park neighborhood, from Linwood Boulevard south to 33rd Street, and Gillham Road east to Holmes Street. Photos courtesy Kansas City Public Library, Missouri Valley Special Collections.