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1887 - J. Rieger & Co. distillery originally founded. 1889 The city of Kansas City formed by merger of Westport and City of Kansas. [1] Kansas City Public Library building opens. [11] 1890 - Population: 132,716. [5] 1892 Construction of Kansas City's Parks and Boulevard system as designed by George Kessler. First Court House built. [5] 1893 ...
Kirkman, Paul. Forgotten Tales of Kansas City (Arcadia, 2012) Londre, Felicia Hardison. The Enchanted Years of the Stage: Kansas City at the Crossroads of American Theater, 1870-1930 (University of Missouri, 2007) Peterson, John E. The Kansas City Athletics: A Baseball History, 1954-1967 (McFarland, 2015). Rhodes, Richard. Cupcake land.
Kansas City, Missouri Founded in 1933, the Nelson-Atkins maintains wide-ranging collections of more than 35,000 works of art and welcomes 500,000 visitors a year ...
The Kansas City Symphony was founded by R. Crosby Kemper Jr. in 1982 to replace the defunct Kansas City Philharmonic, which was founded in 1933. [89] The symphony performs at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts. Matthias Pintscher is the symphony's music director and lead conductor. Lyric Opera of Kansas City, founded in 1958, performs ...
Simon was born on October 13, 1941, in Newark, New Jersey, to Hungarian-Jewish parents. [3] [4] [5] His father, Louis (1916–1995), a professor of education at the City College of New York, [6] was a double-bass player and dance bandleader who performed under the name Lee Sims.
Location: 1808 Clay St., North Kansas City. Year founded: 1948. Best known for: “World Famous Chili.” Founder Paul Dunbar’s wife came up with the meat-based, dry chili with no tomatoes but a ...
The Kansas City, Kansas Police Department was founded in 1898. By 1918, the department had begun taking photographs and fingerprints of all the people its officers had arrested. The Kansas City, Kansas Fire Department was founded on December 25, 1883.
The Kansas City Chiefs of the National Football League (NFL) have had 13 head coaches in their franchise history. The franchise was founded in 1960 by Lamar Hunt and were known as the Dallas Texans when the team was located in Dallas, Texas. [1] The team relocated to Kansas City, Missouri and were renamed the Chiefs in