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Land Ephraim House Cleared in 1837 Site of Home for Neglected Children
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Description
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Photo, illustration, and article about the homestead of Ephraim House, south of Independence at 5100 South Noland Road in Kansas City, converted in the 1970s into "the Evangelical Children's Home." Description of Ephraim's life and career, born in Kentucky in 1807 and coming to Clay County, Missouri, in 1827 before arriving in Jackson County in 1836 (to marry Irene West, daughter of James West), settling on his farm and supposedly killed by Quantrill's men about 1861 despite being a Southern sympathizer.
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Date
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1978-09
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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People and Animals at Residences
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Description
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Unidentified men, women, children, horses, and dog on porches of and in front of unidentified residences, location unknown. Mount says This is English you know.
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Date
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1888-05
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Designers' Showcase to Be in Roanoke Area
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Description
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Aticle about the eighth Designers' Showhouse, at 1008 Valentine Road, a Victorian mansion built in 1901-1902 for the family of Llewellyn James, general counsel for the Armour Packing Company and later an executive with the Metropolitan Street Railway Company, dying in 1912. Description of his role with Edward Holmes (residing at 1100 Valentine Road) in "plott[ing] out the Roanoke Addition, part of the old Kansas City fairgrounds," and rich history of the house's later ownership including J. H. Neff (dying in 1913), Dr. Don Carlos Guffey, or Don Guffey (ca. 1879-1966), Dr. Carroll Zahorsky, et al. "The Kansas City Journal Post [sic], in 1928, named 1008 Valentine Road Grand Champion of the City Beautiful Contest." Dr. Guffey [resident from about 1925 to 1966], an obstetrician, helped establish the University of Kansas Medical Center. "He delivered two of Ernest Hemingway's children and Thomas Hart Benton's daughter." Dr. Guffey "had the original manuscript for Hemingway's 'Death in the Afternoon.'" Guffey died in 1966 at the age of 87 after six decades of practice and delivery of an estimated 10,000 babies.
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Date
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1977-02
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Philanthropic Profile: Christmas in October
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Photos and description of "Kansas City's Christmas in October program," working on "enhanc[ing] housing conditions in more than 4,700 homes throughout the metro area" since its establishment in 1984, with workers such as local labor union volunteers.
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Date
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2000-12
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Holzmark Residence
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Description
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Full frontal and side view with unidentified men, women, and children on porch and in yard.
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Unidentified Residence
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Description
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Full frontal and partial side view of one-story house with unidentified men, women and children in foreground.
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Kansas City in 1879
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Description
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Book offering a general view of Kansas City, including, among other aspects, buildings, businesses, residences, illustrations, etc.
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Date
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1905-02-21
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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People in Living Room
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Description
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Unidentified man and women in living room.
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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A "Shut In" Farm
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Description
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Story of the changes from rural to urban environment surrounding the Webster Withers mansion, built in about 1883 at 31st and Troost Avenues "to get away out on a farm."
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Date
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1912-04-14
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Leaving Footprints in History
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Description
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Interview with Dan Rockhill, an architect whose homes appear in the Kansas City area. The article notes that Rockhill is criticized by traditional architects for his "coldness," while Rockhill emphasizes that he tries to avoid the "McMansion" quality of much traditional architecture.
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Date
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2004-05
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Grant Will Finance Harris Home Project
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Description
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History of the home and its various owners, starting with the arrival of John Harris and Henrietta Harris and their children in 1832 from Kentucky by covered wagon.
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Date
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1976-05
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Proposed Street
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Description
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View looking east on 48th Street from Grand Avenue. Includes outline of proposed trafficway widening, and several children are pictured on sidewalks.
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Date
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1926
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Pioneer Life in Southwest Missouri
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Description
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Chapter of the book about the construction of the "two-story brick mansion" of John B. Wornall, "the most pretentious of anything in that section," just before and during the Civil War, including a description of the Battle of Westport near the house.
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Date
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1929
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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This Castle Not in Spain
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Description
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Illustration and article about the new castle-like mansion built for Dr. Flavel Tiffany at Garfield and Cliff Drives, designed by architect Clifton Sloan and constructed of rock quarried at 2nd Street and Lydia Avenue.
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Date
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1909-09-09
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Family Home Back in Family
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Description
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Article relates how David and Lucy Terry bought a home called Rock Oaks in the Roanoke neighborhood. The house was built in 1921 by Lucy's great-grandfather, Frank Shryock. "When Shryock built the three-story home, he did so with the intention of having his daughter and son-in-law, Frances and Frank Wilkinson, live there as well. Frank Wilkinson was a state senator and also taught Harry S Truman at the Kansas City Law School." The artist Thomas Hart Benton and his family lived across the street.
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Date
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2006-06-28
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Good Things in Historic Northeast
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Description
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Column features the 16th annual Historic Kansas City Foundation homes tour held October 16, 2004. The Scarritt home at 3500 Gladstone Boulevard which belonged to Judge Edward Lucky Scarritt and the Scarritt-Jones house at 3400 Norledge Avenue were on the tour. Includes photographs of the interior of the homes. The Scarritt-Jones home belonged to Martha Matilda Scarritt Jones.
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Date
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2004-10-20
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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