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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 ...
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]
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 ...
Armour Hills is a neighborhood located in Kansas City, Missouri. It is bounded on the west by Brookside Road, on the north by 65th Street, on the east by Oak Street and the south by Gregory Boulevard. [1] The name of this area derives from the fact that the land was owned by members of the Armour family of the Armour and Company.
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The Paseo YMCA opened in 1914, when Julius Rosenwald encouraged Kansas Citians to raise $80,000 toward building a new YMCA. [2] The architect of the Paseo YMCA was local architect Charles A. Smith . In 1920 eight independent black baseball team owners met to form what would become the Negro National League .
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.