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She held an annual "shoe party" at her favorite orphanage, Gillis Orphans' Home, where each child would get a new pair of shoes and a dollar. [6] Ella purchased the land at 52nd and Wornall Road that had once been the Kansas City Country Club, and gifted it to the city in 1927 as a memorial to Jacob. This land became Loose Park. [7]
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.
[7] It was a promotional leaflet advertising housing development in Kansas City, with text from its library entry reading: "Buy now in the Negro Country Club District, Kansas City, Kansas, beautiful homes and building lots, splendid transportation service, bus and street car. Ex-service men use your bonus money to protect your family with a home."
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 ...
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.
It's the end of an era for Taylor Swift!. The pop superstar — who turned 35 on Friday, Dec. 13 —celebrated her latest achievements alongside boyfriend Travis Kelce at an Eras Tour-themed party ...
Taylor Swift just turned the hallways at Arrowhead Stadium into her own personal runway!. On Saturday, Jan. 18, the pop star, 35, piled on the Chanel in Kansas City, Mo., to support her boyfriend ...
Downtown Kansas City 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. The locations of National Register properties and districts are in an online map.