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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 ...
Holy Family Roman Catholic Church was established in 1908 in Kansas City, Kansas by immigrants from Lower Carniola. [ 34 ] The Slovenian Chapel of Our Lady of Brezje, in the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception , Washington, D.C., is the dedicated Slovenian National Marian Shrine, founded in 1971.
The Slovene National Benefit Society, known in Slovenian as Slovenska narodna podporna jednota, and by its Slovene initials S.N.P.J. is an ethnic fraternal benefit and social organization for Slovene immigrants and their descendants in the United States. [1] Founded in 1904, it is headquartered in suburban Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA near ...
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 ...
Nestled near Kansas City’s Country Club Plaza, Saint Luke’s Bishop Spencer Place, a nonprofit retirement community, offers a range of services from independent living to assisted living ...
He came to Kansas City after the War and was one of the founders of the Kansas City Board of Trade and was president of First National Bank. He promoted the use of coal gas to light the city. [1] In 1882, he was one of the original incorporators of the Kansas City Club. [2] He died in 1895 and is interred in Elmwood Cemetery.
The William Chick Scarritt House was designed in 1888 by John Wellborn Root in a Châteauesque style. [1] It was built for lawyer William Chick Scarritt, [2] grandson of William Miles Chick, son of Nathan Scarritt, and father of Dorothy McKibbin. [3]
Mack Barnabas Nelson was born in Arkansas in 1872. He came to Kansas City in 1894, where he worked for the Long-Bell Lumber Company.At the time of construction, Nelson was vice president of the lumber company, but he later came to the top position in the company after Long suffered financial reverses early in the Great Depression.