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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]
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.
Art, food and maybe a little sweat are on the agenda for Kansas City’s First Friday. It’s almost August’s First Friday. What to look for in the Crossroads and West Bottoms
James Francis Pendergast (January 27, 1856 – November 10, 1911) was a Democratic politician and the first Big City Boss of Kansas City, Missouri.He rose to prominence in the West Bottoms as the proprietor of saloons and gambling establishments and became head of a political faction that held significant control over local politicians and law enforcement in Kansas City.
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.