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The Kansas City Power and Light Building (also called the KCP&L Building and the Power and Light Building) is a landmark skyscraper located in Downtown Kansas City, Missouri. It was constructed by Kansas City Power and Light President and Edison Pioneer, Joseph F. Porter [6] [7] [8] in 1931 as a way to promote new jobs in Downtown Kansas City.
There are 342 properties and districts listed on the National Register in Kansas City. Downtown Kansas City includes 160 of these properties and districts; the city's remaining properties and districts are the National Register of Historic Places listings in Kansas City, Missouri. One historic district overlaps the downtown and non-downtown ...
The Kansas City–Florida Special was a pooled night train and the premier train of the Frisco Railroad and the Southern Railway. Operating from Kansas City, Missouri to Jacksonville, Florida , it was unique as being one of very few long distance passenger train to traverse the Mississippi River south of St. Louis, Missouri and north of New ...
Racist dividing line, King assassination riots [1] Prospect Avenue is one of the major north-south streets in Kansas City, Missouri and the Kansas City metropolitan area. It begins in the north at E Reservoir Drive in the Pendleton Heights neighborhood of the Historic Northeast and stretches south for 10.5 miles to its southern terminus at Blue ...
Florida Keys. / 24.66694°N 81.54417°W / 24.66694; -81.54417. The Florida Keys are a coral cay archipelago off the southern coast of Florida, forming the southernmost part of the continental United States. They begin at the southeastern coast of the Florida peninsula, about 15 miles (24 km) south of Miami and extend in a gentle arc ...
Loose Park, the third largest park in Kansas City, includes Rose Garden and Civil War markers from the Battle of Westport. Swope Park, a 1,805-acre city park. [3] Shoal Creek Living History Museum, 20 authentic buildings from the 1800s; events, tours, and historical reenactments, in 1,000-acre Hodge Park.
There are 385 properties and districts listed on the National Register in Jackson County, including 4 National Historic Landmarks. The city of Kansas City is the location of 341 of these properties and districts; they are listed here, while the remaining properties and districts, including all of the National Historic Landmarks, are listed ...
Streetcars in Kansas City were the primary public transit mode during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, like most North American cities. [2] [3] Kansas City, Missouri once had one of the most extensive streetcar systems in North America, but the last of its 25 streetcar routes was shut down in 1957. [4]