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Kansas City's Hotel Savoy was built in 1888. It was built by the owners of the Arbuckle Coffee Company. In 1903 the original hotel was remodeled and the west wing was added featuring the Savoy Grill dining room. The Savoy Grill was the oldest continuously operating restaurant in Kansas City, Missouri, until it temporarily closed in 2016.
The Savoy Grill opened in 1903, making it one of the oldest Kansas City restaurants still in its original location. It was known as a “man’s restaurant” with a menu of beef, seafood and game.
[2] [3] Other menu items at this time included long end ribs for 15 cents and goose livers for 10 cents. [4] In 1977, Mike Donegan and Jim Hogan purchased the restaurant and inherited some of the original recipes. [2] [4] In 1983, Mike Donegan, his twin brother, Dennis Donegan, and Jim Hogan purchased a northern site called Oak Ridge Manor. [2]
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in the Jackson County portions of Kansas City, Missouri, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties and districts; these locations may be seen together in an online map. [1]
The town of Kansas, Missouri, was incorporated on June 1, 1850, reincorporated and renamed City of Kansas on March 28, 1853, and renamed Kansas City in 1889.The area straddles the border between Missouri and Kansas at the confluence of the Kansas and Missouri rivers, and was considered a good place to settle.
Westport is a historic neighborhood and a main entertainment district in Kansas City, Missouri.. In the early 1800s, West Port was settled by a group led by American pioneer and tribal missionary Reverend Isaac McCoy, who brought his son John Calvin McCoy as surveyor, and his son-in-law Reverend Johnston Lykins who bought the land.
It was the first controlled intersection in Kansas City, marking the coming reliance on the automobile and has become a local icon due to its unique structure and placement. [7] Walt Bodine (1940 – 2012), a fixture of talk radio on Kansas City's NPR member station KCUR, grew up at the corner of Linwood Boulevard and Troost Avenue. [17]
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