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adminMichael Bushnell Northeast News Luin Kennedy Thacher was born in Hornellsville, New York, and immigrated to the Kansas City area in the mid 1850s to take advantage of the huge…
adminMichael Bushnell Northeast News The cornerstone of the Masonic Temple at 803 N. Seventh Street in Kansas City, Kansas, was laid Nov. 19, 1908. A host of local dignitaries were…
adminMichael Bushnell Northeast News Eccentric. That’s how many described noted turn-of-the-century Kansas City architect Louis S. Curtiss. A student of Frank Lloyd Wright, Curtiss designed a variety of commercial…
adminMichael Bushnell Northeast News This real photo postcard of the Holy Rosary Church’s Christmas crib was taken during the 1941 holiday season. Missionaries of St. Charles founded Holy Rosary Parish,…
adminMichael Bushnell Northeast News This week’s historic postcard shows the Monarch Vinegar Works “immense plant” in Kansas City, Missouri. The plant shown is located at 2400 Nicholson and still manufactures…
adminMichael Bushnell Northeast News Karnes Boulevard meanders through the Coleman Highlands, Volker neighborhoods, Roanoke Park, between Southwest Trafficway and 31st Street, and continues southwest where it intersects with Roanoke Road…
adminMichael Bushnell Northeast News Although there’s a vacant lot where Benedict L. Bredburg’s Metropolitan Grocery once stood, such “corner markets” were the rule rather than the exception in the fabric…
adminMichael Bushnell Northeast News What we celebrate as Thanksgiving is traditionally tied to a three-day feast involving the Pilgrims after their first harvest in 1621. After the long winter that…
adminMichael Bushnell Northeast News The Collinwood Apartments, located at 2501-2519 E. Linwood Boulevard, were developed and built by William H. Collins and his architect John W. McKecknie. The design was…
adminMichael Bushnell Northeast News Depending on whom you ask, the geographic center of the United States could be one of four different places, all in various midwestern states. Kansas is…
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