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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.
In 1858, Peter Ridenour and Harlow Baker established the Ridenour-Baker Grocery Company in Lawrence, Kansas, but the development of the railroad system and the conjunction of several key railway lines along the Missouri River drew them to the West Bottoms neighborhood of Kansas City, Missouri, where they relocated and built their first company building in 1878. [4]
Browne’s Irish Marketplace. Location: 3300 Pennsylvania Ave.. Year founded: 1887. Best known for: Reubens with cold pints of Guinness. The Irish imports shop and deli got its start in 1887. Ed ...
Founded in 1949, the Golden Ox is the birthplace of the Kansas City strip steak. The Golden Ox is considered the oldest steakhouse in Kansas City, [1] because though Jess & Jim's Steakhouse had opened more than one decade earlier in 1938, its Martin City neighborhood was not annexed into Kansas City until 1963. The original Golden Ox location ...
Kansas City’s Billie’s Grocery will open its second location on Saturday, in Ranch Mart North at 3614 W. 95th St. in Leawood.. Owner Robin Krause opened the first location at 3216 Gillham ...
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.
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