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The Kansas City Club Building is a 14-story building in downtown Kansas City, Missouri, built from 1918 to 1922. [2] It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 2002. [1] It was built as the clubhouse of the Kansas City Club, a private club. It remained the clubhouse until 2001, when the club merged with a nearby ...
Clubhouse, 1888-1922. After the Civil War, most of Kansas City's social clubs were pro-Confederate.A group of prominent local businessmen and professionals, including Edward H. Allen, Victor B. Bell, Alden J. Blethen, Thomas B. Bullene, Gardiner Lathrop, August Meyer, Leander J. Talbott, William Warner, and Robert T. Van Horn, decided to provide an alternative, and organized the Kansas City ...
Mack Barnabas Nelson was born in Arkansas in 1872. He came to Kansas City in 1894, where he worked for the Long-Bell Lumber Company.At the time of construction, Nelson was vice president of the lumber company, but he later came to the top position in the company after Long suffered financial reverses early in the Great Depression.
Bullhead City hosts many annual events, the most notable being a river regatta. On the weekend of August 13, 2016, the 10th annual Bullhead City River Regatta, with a Pirates of the Colorado theme, attracted 30,158 registered participants. The local economic impact of the event was estimated at $20 million in 2015, although the city made just ...
Downtown Kansas City is the central business district (CBD) of Kansas City, Missouri and the Kansas City metropolitan area which contains 3.8% of the area's employment. [1] It is between the Missouri River in the north, to 31st Street in the south; and from the Kansas–Missouri state line eastward to Bruce R. Watkins Drive as defined by the Downtown Council of Kansas City; [2] the 2010 ...
The neighborhood was annexed by the City of Westport in 1891, which was in turn absorbed by Kansas City in 1897. [6] [7] George Kessler was engaged to develop a neighborhood park, laying the groundwork of the City Beautiful movement of boulevards and parks. [8] [9] Most of the houses in the area were completed by 1920. [10]
Most of the homes in Blue Hills were built in the 1910s and 1920s. From its early years until the 1960s nearly all of the residents of Blue Hills were white and most were working class, making it a working white neighborhood In the early 1960s, the racial composition of the neighborhood changed due to blockbusting, and in the 1970s more than 95% of Blue Hills residents were African-American.
Kansas City, Kansas – Racial and ethnic composition Note: the US Census treats Hispanic/Latino as an ethnic category. This table excludes Latinos from the racial categories and assigns them to a separate category. Hispanics/Latinos may be of any race. Race / Ethnicity (NH = Non-Hispanic) Pop 2000 [29] Pop 2010 [30] Pop 2020 [31] % 2000 % 2010 ...