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Title: African Methodist Episcopal Churches (AME)
Description: File contains several news articles with pictures including Reverend Stanley Counts of Flipper Memorial AME Church and Mrs. Rosa Scott, organist at Ward Chapel AME Church.
Object Type: Vertical File

Title: Della C. Lamb Neighborhood House
Description: File includes information about the Della C. Lamb and the Neighborhood House, that "originated because many working mothers in the community needed quality child care" and where Mrs. Lamb served as president for 25 years. Also in the file is the booklet, "Della Lamb Community Services 1897-1997: 100 Years of Caring," as well as photos of Della Lamb and other family members.
Object Type: Vertical File

Title: Grand Avenue Temple
Description: File contains programs, flyers, newsletters, and pamphlets about the history of the Grand Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church, commonly called the Grand Avenue Temple. The E. M. Skinner organ was a gift in 1913 by Henry Schoellkopf in memory of Christian Schoellkopf.
Object Type: Vertical File

Title: Sanborn Map, Kansas City, Vol. 3, 1909-1957, Page p389
Description: A portion of Kansas City from E. 25th Street south to E. 26th Street and from Indiana Avenue east to Cleveland Avenue, showing buildings, streets, and additions. Large numbers at edges of page refer to page with adjoining area.
Date: 1909/1957
Object Type: Map

Title: Sanborn Map, Kansas City, Vol. 3, 1909-1957, Page p348
Description: A portion of Kansas City from E. 24th Street south to E. 25th Street and from Beacon Hill east to Forest Avenue, showing buildings, streets, and additions. Large numbers at edges of page refer to page with adjoining area.
Date: 1909/1957
Object Type: Map

Title: SC40 Peery Family Papers Finding Aid
Description: The Peery family collection contains just over 600 letters including correspondence of John Thompson Peery, an early founder of Methodism in the Kansas City area, and his wife Mary Jane Chick Johnson Peery. Both lived and worked at one time in the 1840s-50s at the Shawnee Indian Mission. Also contains other Peery family member correspondence addressed to relatives in Oklahoma, Oregon, California, and other parts of Missouri. Bulk of the correspondence pertains to the Archibald Peery family and in particular to Horace J. Peery and his wife. Collection contains seven photographs.
Date: 1820/1913
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: Central United Methodist Church Defies Adversity, Adopts Diversity
Description: Central United Methodist Church in Kansas City, Kansas, has survived numerous floods, including the 1951 flood in which water filled the church up to the balcony. As it has lost membership, the Church has embraced diversity offering 34 social service programs, known as "Bridges of Hope" and developing a muticultural congregation.
Date: 2009
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Closed Church's History Saved
Description: The Kansas City Museum received a significant donation of records and artifacts from the historic Melrose United Methodist Church located at Windsor and Bales avenues in the Northeast community. The church was founded in 1888 by Nathan Scarritt. It closed its doors this year due to a dwindling congregation.
Date: 2011-07-28
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Bountiful Harvest
Description: Summit Harvest is a community garden "program created by Summit United Methodist Church in conjunction with St. Luke's Healthcare East. They cultivated more than 3,000 pounds of fresh produce for Lee's Summit Social Services and Neighbor2Neighbor, a soup kitchen in Westport."
Date: 2010-10-27
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: He Never Stopped Thinking
Description: The Tribute column highlights the life of Elbert C. Cole, Jr., minister for the United Methodist Church for 49 years and founder of Shepherd's Center and founding member of the Kingswood Senior Living Community.
Date: 2010-05-15
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: A Grand Centennial for a Grand Church
Description: The Grand Avenue Temple United Methodist Church (205 E. 9th St., southeast corner of 9th Street and Grand Boulevard) was completed February 1912. It is the second church building that the United Methodist Church built in that location. Today the church is home to the "inderdenominational Lazarus Ministries, which provides clothing, meals, a health clinic, a library and a women's shelter to Kansas City's urban core. Many of the 200 or so worshippers at the Sunday service are homeless." Article gives some history of the building and church.
Date: 2012-02-07
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: '...Know This Church Was Loved'
Description: The Melrose United Methodist Church located at 200 N. Bales in Kansas City closed its doors after 123 years. The church was built in 1926 when attendance was at more than 650, but as of recently the numbers were at about 10 to 15 people each week. Two ministries that were created by the church that still exist are the Della C. Lamb Neighborhood Center and the Spofford Home for Children.
Date: 2011-06-22
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: SC29 Olive L. Hoggins Papers (Centenary History of the Churches) Finding Aid
Description: This collection of the personal files of Olive Hoggins contains correspondence, photographs, newspaper clippings, edited versions of congregational histories, ephemera, etc. Most of the denominational history pertains to Kansas City, although some Independence and other area churches are included. Research materials consist primarily of photocopies of newspaper articles; publications from individual churches; as well as programs and other documents. The photos consist of pictures of church buildings, as well as over 100 portraits of clergymen. It appears that the Missouri Valley Historical Society sponsored this work, starting in the early 1920s. Olive Hoggins was the compiler and writer, probably intending to publish a book, but the material seems never to have been issued in book form and was only published in the Saturday church page of the Kansas City Post, appearing between 1927 and 1930.
Date: 1923/1930
Object Type: Finding Aid

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