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adminMichael 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…
adminMichael 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…
adminMichael 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…
adminMichael 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…
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…
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