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Title: Troupe Group Hopes to Raise Curtain on Space
Description: Article describes the Just Off Broadway Theater Association, a coalition of community theater groups based in Penn Valley Park at 3051 Central Avenue. The article reports a five-year agreement between the association and the Kansas City Parks and Recreation Department, reached in December, 2005, giving the association greater responsibility for maintaining its building and the ability to raise funds for improvements and additions to it.
Date: 2005-12-28
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Map of Penn Valley Park
Description: Map of Penn Valley Park, showing wooded areas, tennis courts, ball fields, etc. At the time of the map's printing, George E. Kessler (landscape architect) and W. H. Dunn (Superintendent of Parks) were part of the Park Commissioners Board.
Date: 1910
Object Type: Map

Title: Map Showing the Park and Boulevard System of Kansas City, Missouri
Description: Map showing Kansas City's system of parks and boulevards. The city is divided into five parks districts: West Park, North Park, South Park, East Park, and Westport Park. Lists of parks with their areas in acres, boulevards with their distances in miles, and park drives with their distances in miles is included.
Date: 1906
Object Type: Map

Title: SC32 George Kessler Collection Finding Aid
Description: This one box collection includes 16 landscape drawings done primarily by George Kessler, dated 1910 - 1916 and covering not only Penn Valley Park and North Terrace Park in Kansas City but also projects in China, Oklahoma City, Indianapolis, St. Joseph, St. Louis, etc. It also includes two microfilm reels of official correspondence to and from the Board of Park Commisssioners, held in the same box as the drawings.
Date: 1895/1923
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: Just Off Broadway Theatre Gets Larger Home
Description: Thanks to tax increment financing dollars from the Federal Reserve's new regional headquarters just south of Penn Valley Park, the Just Off Broadway Theatre has been able to "dramatically enhance the building at 3051 Central St." The former barn and stable used by the Kansas City parks deparment since the early 1900s has been the venue for the theater since the early 1990s when the wooden portion of the building burned. With insurance money, the theater was built within the remaining stone walls, but it lacked many amenities. Includes a picture from 1945 of the stone and wood horse stable and maintenance barn and another showing the new construction for the additional space.
Date: 2011-07-10
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: An Impressive Start at Revitalizing Penn Valley Park
Description: Editorial summarizes recent efforts to revitalize Penn Valley Park and suggests future improvements. The author states that the efforts took place under the leadership of the Penn Valley Park Conservancy and the Kansas City Parks and Recreation Department. David Disney, current Conservancy president, is interviewed and describes future plans for the park.
Date: 2013-05-12
Object Type: Newspaper Article

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