Stone church stands test of time
By Michael Bushnell Northeast News July 13, 2011 “The Builders Society of the Ivanhoe Park Congregational Church earnestly requests your subscription or renewal to The Ladies Home Journal or The…
By Michael Bushnell Northeast News July 13, 2011 “The Builders Society of the Ivanhoe Park Congregational Church earnestly requests your subscription or renewal to The Ladies Home Journal or The…
By Michael Bushnell Northeast News July 6, 2011 You might visit the area around 103rd Street and State Line Road if you were interested in purchasing an automobile these days,…
By Michael Bushnell Northeast News June 29, 2011 This black and white photo postcard, published by the Southwest News Company of Kansas City, shows Union Avenue during the Great Flood…
By Michael Bushnell Northeast News June 22, 2011 The Kansas City Flood of 1908: “The heavy rains during the month of June in the Missouri and Kaw River valleys was…
By Michael Bushnell Northeast News June 15, 2011 Making the floods of 1903 and 1908 seem insignificant in comparison, the flood of 1951 was dubbed “The Great Flood” with the…
By Michael Bushnell Northeast News June 8, 2011 Risqué photos like the one shown here have been around for as long or longer than postcards themselves. Prior to the advent…
By Michael Bushnell Northeast News June 1, 2011 In 1888 when the Forest Hill Cemetery was incorporated, it lay outside the Kansas City city limits at 69th and Troost Avenue.…
By Michael Bushnell Northeast News May 25, 2011 Never before or since has such a line of martial marchers moved down Kansas City’s streets as did the American Legion parade…
By Michael Bushnell Northeast News May 18, 2011 What became one of America’s greatest “bread and butter” railroads was founded in 1845 by a group of civic leaders in and…
By Michael Bushnell Northeast News May 11, 2011 About two years after the opening of the “new” Hannibal Bridge over the Missouri River, Kansas City’s first Livestock Exchange building was…