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Garden City is a city in and the county seat of Finney County, Kansas, United States. [2] As of the 2020 census , the population of the city was 28,151. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] The city is home to Garden City Community College and the Lee Richardson Zoo , the largest zoological park in western Kansas.
KWKR (99.9 FM) is a mainstream rock formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Leoti, Kansas, serving the Garden City market though its signal aligns more to West-Central Kansas. [2] KWKR is owned by My Town Media, through licensee Western Kansas Broadcast Center, LLC.
The origins of Garden City started with the transfer of the property to John Lathers from Andrew Jackson for 160 acres (0.65 km 2) in October 1835.The city was patterned after the "garden city" concept that became popular in England during the 19th century, with most home sites sectioned off into 1-acre (4,000 m 2) plots to allow adequate farming area to support the family with fruit and ...
Garden City Township is a township in Finney County, Kansas, United States. [1] As of the 2000 census , its population was 7,400. The population had decreased to 5,761 at the 2010 census .
The Savoy Grill opened in 1903, making it one of the oldest Kansas City restaurants still in its original location. It was known as a “man’s restaurant” with a menu of beef, seafood and game.
The original Coates and Gillis store became Coates and Bullene when it merged with a store operated by Thomas B. Bullene. It then became the Bullene, Moore and Emery department store. The store got its final name in the 1890s from the investors W. E. Emery, Joseph Taylor Bird. Sr. and William B. Thayer.
Founded in Caro, MI in 1876, Himelhoch's moved to Detroit in 1907. Himelhoch's Department Store returned online in 2018 under the ownership of fourth-generation family members. Closed in 1977. [237] "Fifty years later, the chain had stretched across the country, and even to Paris." Its original location on Washington Boulevard is a historic ...
In 1978, Helen Foresman Spencer, another female Kansas City collector, made a substantial gift to fund the construction of a new space, under the directorship of Charles C. Eldredge. The new building was designed by the architect and Class of 1926 alum Robert E. Jenks in the Neoclassical style from Indiana limestone.