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City workhouse castle (Vine Street workhouse castle, Brant Castle [3]) is a city historical register site located at 2001 Vine Street in Kansas City, Missouri.The castle was constructed by contractors in 1897 for US$25,700 (equivalent to $941,000 in 2023) next to the natural deposit of yellow limestone which had been quarried by inmates of the preceding city workhouse jail across Vine Street.
There are 342 properties and districts listed on the National Register in Kansas City. Downtown Kansas City includes 160 of these properties and districts; the city's remaining properties and districts are the National Register of Historic Places listings in Kansas City, Missouri. One historic district overlaps the downtown and non-downtown ...
The history of the Kansas City metropolitan area relates to the area around the confluence of the Kansas and Missouri Rivers and the modern-day city of Kansas City, Missouri. Before the arrival of European explorers, the area was inhabited at various times by peoples of the Hopewell tradition and later the Mississippian culture, as well as the ...
Awning. Art Nouveau awning in Nancy (France) City-house with an awning above the entrance, in Bucharest (Romania) Grand Hotel with numerous awnings in Toledo, Ohio. An awning or overhang is a secondary covering attached to the exterior wall of a building. It is typically composed of canvas woven of acrylic, cotton or polyester yarn, or vinyl ...
Westport. 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.
The ‘Castle on the Hill’: Inside the history of Kansas City’s all-Black high school. Natalie Wallington. February 23, 2024 at 6:00 AM.
Architectural style. Greek Revival. NRHP reference No. 69000109 [1] Added to NRHP. May 21, 1969. The John Wornall House Museum is a historic house museum in Kansas City, Missouri. The museum, located at 6115 Wornall Road in the Brookside area of Kansas City, is furnished to represent the daily life of a prosperous, pre-Civil War family.
Kansas City, Missouri's first highrise is the New York Life Insurance Building, completed in 1890. It has twelve floors at a height of 180 feet (55 m) and is the first local building with elevators. After the New York Life Building was completed, Kansas City followed the national trend of constructing a plethora of buildings above ten stories.