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Woolf Brothers Clothing Company is a historic building in Wichita, Kansas. It is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. It is at 135 East Douglas Avenue. It was built in 1922 and replaced Greenfield's Clothing and Furnishings for Men. The building was designed by Lorenz Schmidt and opened in January 1923. [1] [2]
Darius Sales Munger House, built in 1868, is the oldest surviving building in Witchita. [3]Pioneer trader Jesse Chisholm, a half-white, half-Native American who was illiterate but who spoke multiple Native American languages, established a trading post at the site in the 1860s, and Chisholm traded cattle and goods with the Wichita tribe at points south along a trail from Wichita into present ...
Residential Resources of Wichita, Sedgwick County, Kansas 1870–1957 MPS. The district is a 40-acre property northwest of Wichita's aircraft related industrial district. It consists of Linwood Place Addition and Darrah’s First Addition platted in 1943 and 1949, respectively.
Then, in 1946, Harry Shepler carried a brown paper bag with $25,000 down Wichita’s Main Street to buy the business. At the time, the store — which was where the Sedgwick County Courthouse is ...
Henry's was a family-owned clothing retailer in Wichita, Kansas from 1911 until 1993. The store sponsored the Henry Clothiers basketball team which won three consecutive national Amateur Athletic Union championships in 1930-1932 at a time when colleges, corporate-sponsored teams, and private athletic clubs competed in the same tournament.
The mall itself opened on July 30, 1970, as the Wichita Mall Shopping Center. Montgomery Ward closed alongside the Towne West Square location on March 5, 2001, due to bankruptcy. [6] [7] On August 8, 2002, the mall has been sold. [8]
The Wichita Symphony Orchestra once made the auditorium its home. Poet Maya Angelou spoke there in the 1990s. And something especially dramatic happened there on Dec. 8, 1941.
A popular McDonald’s location open in Wichita for about 60 years closed this week, ... 11989 E. Kellogg, Wichita, KS 67207. 1645 S. Webb Road, Wichita, KS 67207. 1219 S. Rock Road, Wichita, KS ...