adminMichael Bushnell Northeast News Forty years ago on Jan. 28, 1978, as hotel guests slept in their roughly $1.75 per night beds, fire broke out in the historic Coates House…
adminMichael Bushnell Northeast News The new $750,000 M.K. Goetz Brewery wasn’t built in Kansas City until 1936, but its long, storied history had already been a major part of the…
adminMichael Bushnell Northeast News Vaughn’s Diamond was a prominent building constructed in the late 1860’s by early Kansas City real estate pioneer Samuel Vaughn, who purchased the plat in the…
adminMichael Bushnell Northeast News The laying of the Cornerstone of Mercy Hospital at 1710 Independence Boulevard in October of 1916 was a ceremony full of pomp and circumstance, drawing powerful…
adminMichael Bushnell Northeast News Upon its completion in 1914, the Montgomery Ward Distribution Center in Historic Northeast Kansas City was billed as the largest building west of the Mississippi River.…
adminMichael Bushnell Northeast News “Kissing the Rod” “O heart of mine we shouldn’t worry so, What we’ve missed of calm we couldn’t have you know, What we’ve met of stormy…
adminMichael Bushnell Northeast News This week we take a break from historic cards and offer up a jewel for the Elvis Presley fans among us. This postcard shows a uniformed…
adminMichael Bushnell Northeast News Originally designed as an ornate drinking fountain by noted Kansas City Sculptor Robert Merril Gage, the American Legion Fountain was a fixture at Ninth and Main…
adminMichael Bushnell Northeast News If you’ve forgotten what the third floor of the Kansas City Museum looked like when your elementary school booked a field trip there, here’s a little…
adminMichael Bushnell Northeast News When Kirkland B. Armour began construction of his palatial mansion on the boulevard that bears the name of his uncle, Simeon B. Armour, the roadway…
----
