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kansascity.com | Randy Mason |Monty Davis
Inside Look is a Star series that takes our readers behind the scenes of some of the most well-known and not-so-well-known places and events in Kansas City. Have a suggestion for a future story? Email our journalists at [email protected]. It's fun to see the different ways that certain buildings have been used over the years. Like the First National Bank on the northeast corner of 10th Street and Baltimore Avenue.
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kcstudio.org | Randy Mason
Andreas Cellarius, German (c. 1596 – 1665), “Harmonia macrocosmica.” Amsterdam, Jan Janszoon, 1661, book; paper and printing ink bound in leather over boards, with hand-colored engraved plates, 20.8 x 13.7 x 2.8” (courtesy of Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering and Technology, Kansas City, MO)As exhibits go, it’s fairly small.
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kcstudio.org | Randy Mason
Artists Thrive 2024 Summit attendees in the “Arts in Education: Making the K-12 Connection” session participating in an exercise to strengthen relationships in the community (photo courtesy of Artists Thrive)Q: What do Berea, Kentucky; Winston-Salem, North Carolina; and Kansas City, Missouri; have in common?
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1 month ago | 
kansascity.com | Randy Mason |Monty Davis
Inside Look is a Star series that takes our readers behind the scenes of some of the most well-known and not-so-well-known places and events in Kansas City. Have a suggestion for a future story? Email our journalists at [email protected]. In 1909, when this postcard was published, the 300 block of E. 12th Street was a busy place for businesses of various kinds.
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1 month ago | 
kansascity.com | Randy Mason |Monty Davis
Inside Look is a Star series that takes our readers behind the scenes of some of the most well-known and not-so-well-known places and events in Kansas City. Have a suggestion for a future story? Email our journalists at [email protected]. In the late 1800s, Kansas City faced one of the problems that all boom towns do-not enough schools. So the school district, which started modestly in 1867, began playing catch up.
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yahoo.com | Randy Mason |Monty Davis
Inside Look is a Star series that takes our readers behind the scenes of some of the most well-known and not-so-well-known places and events in Kansas City. Have a suggestion for a future story? Email our journalists at [email protected]. In the late 1800s, Kansas City faced one of the problems that all boom towns do—not enough schools. So the school district, which started modestly in 1867, began playing catch up.
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1 month ago | 
kansascity.com | Randy Mason |Monty Davis
Inside Look is a Star series that takes our readers behind the scenes of some of the most well-known and not-so-well-known places and events in Kansas City. Have a suggestion for a future story? Email our journalists at [email protected]. In 1881, a young businessman named John Taylor moved from Columbus, Ohio, to Kansas City with a dream of starting his own store. Soon, he and his partner George Sinclair did just that.
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2 months ago | 
kansascity.com | Randy Mason |Monty Davis
Inside Look is a Star series that takes our readers behind the scenes of some of the most well-known and not-so-well-known places and events in Kansas City. Have a suggestion for a future story? Email our journalists at [email protected]. Kansas City's Second Church of Christ Scientist opened in 1904 on the northeast corner of 31st and Troost, begging the question- was there a First Church? The answer is yes, at 9th & Forest Streets. And it was built just six years earlier.
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yahoo.com | Randy Mason |Monty Davis
Excelsior Springs, Missouri, gained fame for the mineral waters that attracted people to its bathhouses and hotels, including the Elms. But by the time this postcard was made in the 1950s, the town’s tourist boom was nearing its end. Generate Key TakeawaysInside Look is a Star series that takes our readers behind the scenes of some of the most well-known and not-so-well-known places and events in Kansas City. Have a suggestion for a future story? Email our journalists at [email protected].
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kcstudio.org | Randy Mason
Neysa Page-Lieberman, Chief Judith Manthe and project collaborator Madeline Easley standing by the Conley family graves in the Wyandot National Burying Ground, December, 2023. (photo by Stuart Carden)Since the public art project, “Trespassers Beware! Fort Conley and Wyandot Women Warriors” began taking shape, it has changed considerably.
