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Boys Town, Nebraska. Boys Town was founded on December 12, 1917, [1] as an orphanage for boys. Originally known as "The City of Little Men", the organization was begun by Edward J. Flanagan, a Roman Catholic priest, while he worked in the Diocese of Omaha.
A tract of improved land, with buildings, comprising two and seven hundredths (2.07) acres, at the south end of Eleventh street, adjoining the city of Lincoln, was purchased for the sum of US$2,100, and on August 24, 1882, the contract for the erection of the home was let, for the sum of US$3,599.77, the Society of the Home for the Friendless ...
The Willa Cather House, also known as the Willa Cather Childhood Home, is a historic house museum at 241 North Cedar Street in Red Cloud, Nebraska. Built in 1878, it is the house where author Willa Cather (1873–1947) grew up. Cather's descriptions of frontier life in Nebraska were an important part of literary canon of the early 20th century.
Unbound, formerly Christian Foundation for Children and Aging, is a nonprofit international development organization headquartered in Kansas City, Kansas. Unbound was founded by lay Catholics acting on the Gospel call to serve the poor. Its sponsorship program provides direct cash transfers to sponsored members who determine how to use their ...
West Side: 65: Kansas City Club Building: Kansas City Club Building: November 19, 2002 : 1228 Baltimore Ave. Downtown: 66: Kansas City Cold Storage Company Building: Kansas City Cold Storage Company Building: June 1, 2005 : 500 E. 3rd St.
Troost Avenue was continuously developed from 1834 into the 1990s. From the 1880s to 1920s, many prominent white Kansas Citians (including ophthalmologist Flavel Tiffany, Governor Thomas Crittenden, banker William T. Kemper, and MEC, S pastor James Porter) resided in mansions along what had been a farm-to-market road.
Approximately half of Kansas City's properties and districts are located in the downtown, which for the purposes of this list is defined as being roughly bounded by the Missouri River to the north, 31st Street to the south, Troost Avenue to the east, and State Line Road to the west.
Youthville is a nonprofit child welfare agency in Kansas involved in Foster Care, Adoption, Residential Treatment, Counseling and Therapy.The agency was founded in the early 1920s as an outreach of the United Methodist Church to be a residence for homeless and abandoned children.