Kansas City’s first memorial
Michael Bushnell Northeast News Dedicated on June 2, 1909, the August R. Meyer Memorial, at 10th Street and Paseo Boulevard, was the first memorial to be placed in a Kansas…
Michael Bushnell Northeast News Dedicated on June 2, 1909, the August R. Meyer Memorial, at 10th Street and Paseo Boulevard, was the first memorial to be placed in a Kansas…
Michael Bushnell Northeast News This linen postcard showing north and west sides of what at the time was the new Jackson County Courthouse at the intersection of 12th and…
Michael Bushnell Northeast News “The Builders Society of the Ivanhoe Park Congregational Church earnestly requests your subscription or renewal to The Ladies Home Journal or The Saturday Evening Post –…
Michael Bushnell Northeast News Between Oct. 21 and 24 of 1864, the area we now know as Loose Park was the scene of one of the bloodiest battles of the…
Michael Bushnell Northeast News This week we feature a piece of Kansas City’s Irish history just in time for the upcoming St. Patrick’s Day festivities. The 1920s-published card depicts the…
Michael Bushnell Northeast News This week’s postcard is an early Chrome-type postcard published by James Tetrick of Kansas City showing historic Fort Osage near Sibley. On June 23, William Clark…
Michael Bushnell Northeast News In 1950, there were only two bridges that spanned the Missouri River to the north, offering access to downtown Kansas City. The old Hannibal Bridge, originally…
Michael Bushnell Northeast News The Hotel President, located at 1329 Baltimore, opened in January of 1926 as a magnificent fifteen-story structure incorporating therein all that is best in modern hotel…
Michael Bushnell Northeast News Around 200 AD (CE), the Roman Emperor Claudius was busy conquering various parts of Europe and Asia, making a general nuisance of himself in a most…
Michael Bushnell Northeast News Camp Crowder in Neosho, originally established as an Army Signal Corps training camp, was made famous by a variety of celebrities who spent time there during…