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The West Bottoms was founded as a livestock and meatpacking district in 1871. [2] It was home to the Kansas City Live Stock Exchange, Kansas City Stockyards, and the city's first Union railway depot. [3] The stockyards occupied more than two hundred acres and were surrounded by hotels, offices, shops, and banks for cattle buyers and cowboys. [4]
Quality Hill is a historic neighborhood near downtown Kansas City, Missouri, USA, on a 200-foot-high bluff which overlooks the confluence of the Kansas and Missouri rivers in the West Bottoms below. Located on the west side of downtown, it is bounded by Broadway to the east, I-35 to the west, 7th Street to the north, and 14th Street to the south.
Completion of the Hannibal Bridge set in motion Kansas City’s rise into a major city. ... These views from the bluffs show how the West Bottoms developed rapidly from fields in 1869 (left) to a ...
The Edge of Hell in Kansas City West Bottoms district is the nation’s oldest continuously operating haunted attraction. It features a signature 5-story spiral slide and an encounter with the devil.
The phone call came in February 2022. A movie set designer traveling through the Midwest wanted to shop at Bella Patina, an antique store in Kansas City’s West Bottoms.
The Kansas City Live Stock Exchange building was the headquarters of the former historic Kansas City Stockyards. It is located at 1600 Gennesse in Kansas City, Missouri , in the West Bottoms . The building is on the National Register of Historic Places and is owned by Bill Haw.
Hundreds of the fuzzy, South American mammals can be found March 22-24 at Hale Arena at the American Royal Center in Kansas City’s historic West Bottoms neighborhood. This year marks the 21st ...
Jacob Rieger immigrated to America from Goritz, Austria in 1877. In 1887 Jacob founded the J. Rieger & Co. distillery in Kansas City's West Bottoms neighborhood, [2] directly across from the Livestock Exchange Building. In 1898, [3] the first official listing of J. Rieger & Co. appears at 1527 Gennessee Street. [4]