Do you remember the northeast corner of Main and Thirty-first?
The corner of Thirty-first and Main in 1940.
The corner of 31st and Main today.
(Note: This post was originally published in September of 2015).
The building at the corner of 31st and Main is one of Midtown’s most distinctive, known as ...
UMKC Block Includes Historic Carriage House Slated for Demolition Sept. 24
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Pioneering Photographer Was First Owner on this Roanoke Block
Surrounded as it is today by apartments on fast-moving Southwest Trafficway, it is easy to miss the first house that was built on this Roanoke block. But at the turn of the 20th century, the home of D.P. and Sophia Thomson stood alone, ...
Dinner for 100 on this Southermoreland block
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Scores of schoolchildren, judges and bishops visited this Southmoreland home
This house that once stood at the northeast corner of Warwick and 40th Street hosted some famous parties celebrating its well-known and well-loved resident in the 1930s. Schoolchildren with ties to him, lawyers, judges and bishops visited “gentleman ...
A Westport wine garden at 39th and Roanoke
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Map Shows Fairground Racetrack That Became Curve of Valentine Road
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North Hyde Park block was home to early Kansas City police officer
In 1920, Irish-born immigrant Dennis Malloy, who had worked as a bobby in London and then served in the Confederate army, lived with his family in this North Hyde Park home at 3335 Charlotte. He was credited as being the last survivor of ...
Corner drugstore at 39th and Genessee served the neighborhood
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On Southmoreland’s Oak Street, grocers, railroad men, salesmen raised their families
Families moved into homes on the 4100 block of Oak beginning in the late 1800s and the area blossomed in the early 1900s.
A 1909-1950 Sanborn map of the block. Note that Oak and McGee run north to south so the map is flipped on its side.
A well-known ...
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