Elmwood’s Gravestone Architecture
Michael Bushnell Northeast News Funerary Art is well represented in Elmwood Cemetery and some of the finest stone carvings can still be seen in a number of the tombstones placed…
Michael Bushnell Northeast News Funerary Art is well represented in Elmwood Cemetery and some of the finest stone carvings can still be seen in a number of the tombstones placed…
Dorri Partain Contributor The early settlers of Jackson County and Kansas City rest in peace inside the gates of Elmwood Cemetery. When David Burge (1806-1886) purchased 160 acres, his estate…
Dorri Partain Contributor Buildings designed by architect Charles Ashley Smith (1866-1948) are still prominent throughout Historic Northeast Kansas City today. Born in Ohio, Smith arrived in Kansas City in 1887…
Michael Bushnell Publisher Welcome to the first of a series of four Historic Postcard columns dedicated to Elmwood Cemetery in honor of their sesquicentennial on October 1st. When consecrated in…
Michael Bushnell Northeast News This week’s Historic Postcard focuses on the upcoming Labor Day holiday and a brief history of the Ford Motor Company’s Kansas City Assembly Plant, the first…
Dorri Partain Contributor Look for the union label, it says we’re able to make it in the USA. The International Ladies Garment Workers Union (ILGWU) was founded in New York…
Dorri Partain Contributor Party on with the original party animal! As the official mascot of Budweiser’s Bud Light beer, Spuds MacKenzie was a bull terrier that was the Hawaiian-shirt-and-sunglasses-wearing life…
Michael Bushnell Publisher No Historic Postcard series on the Kansas City beer scene, past or present, would be complete without a profile of our present day hometown beer, Boulevard Brewing…
Michael Bushnell Northeast News To date, our Historic Postcard series this summer has focused on Kansas City’s local brewing history, chronicling the stories of local brewing companies such as Heim,…
Dorri Partain Contributor Built atop Siloam Spring, Excelsior Springs’ Hall of Waters was the site of bottling operations for several decades. Completed in 1937, the Art Deco building replaced several…