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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.
The Kansas City Athletics: A Baseball History, 1954-1967 (McFarland, 2015). Rhodes, Richard. Cupcake land. Requiem for the Midwest in the Key of Vanilla. Harper's magazine, November 1987. Rose, Mark H. "Urban Environments and Technological Innovation: Energy Choices in Denver and Kansas City, 1900-1940." Technology and Culture 25.3 (1984): 503 ...
1863 - August 13: The collapse of the Union Women's Prison kills four and maims several other women, which the pro-Confederate bushwhackers will cite revenge as a justification for the Sacking of Lawrence. [6] 1864 - October 23: Battle of Westport. 1867 - March 1: First meeting of the Kansas City Public Schools Board of Education.
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.
Downtown Kansas City is the central business district (CBD) of Kansas City, Missouri and the Kansas City metropolitan area which contains 3.8% of the area's employment. [1] It is between the Missouri River in the north, to 31st Street in the south; and from the Kansas–Missouri state line eastward to Bruce R. Watkins Drive as defined by the Downtown Council of Kansas City; [2] the 2010 ...
Founded in 1949 at 520 W. 14th St., its name was inspired by the historic Kansas City stockyards just down the hill in the West Bottoms. In early 1964 it moved to its current spot just west of ...
The Kansas City Zoo & Aquarium is a 202-acre (82 ha) zoo founded in 1909 and is located in Swope Park at 6800 Zoo Drive, Kansas City, Missouri, in the United States. The zoo has a Friends of the Zoo program to help promote the work of the zoo which sees over one million visitors a year. The zoo is home to nearly 1,700 animals and the aquarium ...
Demolition on Kansas City’s Buck O’Neil Bridge set social media aflutter Tuesday. The Missouri Department of Transportation posted video of the dramatic blast on X, formerly Twitter. It had ...