The next time you grumble about stepping outside into another sweltering Kansas City afternoon, remember that generations before us endured the same relentless heat with little more than shade trees, hand fans, open windows and ingenuity.
Dunford Place is being considered for the Kansas City Register of Historic Places. “I just felt it should be protected,”
Hoffa’s Connection follows the path of North End native Sylvia Pagano and her family from their modest days living in Kansas City’s North End through her strategic rise to power.
“As I was learning about the conflict, I’d look out across the land, and think ‘What happened here?’ This wasn’t just a peaceful river running through here.”
Minnie Mae’s story is deeply entwined in a heinous crime with deep connections to Kansas City’s most notorious criminals.
“His biography is so intimately associated with the growth and development of Kansas City and the territory west of it that it has become part of the history of the great southwest.”
“A marked fatality has followed the Shannon brothers – rapidly rising to fortune ……now all dead within a brief period. Truly life is uncertain.”
There are no photos to truly show its grandeur, but by piecing together records and stories from the past, we are able to travel up Pearl Hill and meet some of its finest residents.
“As long as there were places to sing, audiences to applaud, critics to approve, I sang for dollars, for pennies, for love. But whatever the reward, I sang.”
The story of St. Teresa’s Academy showcases the tenacity of an early Catholic priest, an order of nuns and how the institution they founded successfully grew from a small building into a suburban campus.
From barber chairs to ballot boxes, the Jordan’s proved that political power in this city was not easily claimed.
“I’m going to retire and nobody wants to run it. So, it’s time.”
The first Black US deputy marshal, appointed by a former Confederate general, was related to the Leon Jordan who graced headlines during the Civil Rights movement in Kansas City.
19th century neighborhood was home to school and churches catering to African Americans
Meet the trailblazing 12th mayor of Kansas City
