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  • January 30, 2019
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No better view west of the Hudson

Michael Bushnell Northeast News Built in 1906-07 by the Swenson Construction Company at a cost of $15,000, the stone-arched 15th Street Bridge spans what was then R.T. Van Horn Road…

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  • January 2, 2019
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Armour mansion an 1800s wonder

Michael Bushnell Northeast News When Kirkland B. Armour began construction of his palatial mansion on the boulevard that bears the name of his uncle, Simeon B. Armour, the roadway was…

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  • July 11, 2018
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Big Eleven Lake – an Urban Oasis

Michael Bushnell Northeast News In continuing with our 7-11 themed issue for July 11th, we offer this Max Bernstein-published Linen-type postcard of Big Eleven Lake in Kansas City, Kansas. The…

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  • April 25, 2018
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Beauty Springs eternal on Cliff Drive

Michael Bushnell Northeast News “Fountain and Cliff Drive, North Terrace Park, Kansas City Missouri.” So reads the description on this divided back, hand-colored postcard published around 1910. This view was…

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  • April 11, 2018
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Paseo no more

Well, boys and girls, the fix is in. Get a good look at those street signs that say The Paseo on them because if the Mayor and his blue ribbon…

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  • April 11, 2018
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Kansas City’s first memorial

Michael Bushnell Northeast News Dedicated on June 2, 1909, the August R. Meyer Memorial, at 10th Street and Paseo Boulevard, was the first memorial to be placed in a Kansas…

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  • November 29, 2017
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The House That Beef Built

  Michael Bushnell Northeast News When Kirkland B. Armour began construction of his palatial mansion on the boulevard that bears the name of his uncle, Simeon B. Armour, the roadway…