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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 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…
Michael 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…
Michael 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…
Michael 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…