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Philanthropist Shirley Helzberg plans to restore and expand the old Vitagraph Film Exchange Building at 17th and Wyandotte for symphony offices and other tenants. Its close proximity to the Kauffman…
Date : 2008-04-15
Collection: Local History Index (Citations)
Obituary for Dr. Druery Thorn, a physician on the staff of Saint Luke's Hospital since 1928, dying at the age of 64 in 1956.
Date : 1956-08-13
Collection: Local History Index (Citations)
Obituary for Dr. Frank Hurwitt, a physician here for many years, dying at the age of 92.
Date : 1975-02-01
Collection: Local History Index (Citations)
Article announces that the Kansas City Council has approved the View II residential development in the West Bottoms. Details of the estimated $25 million project that will add nearly 250 new…
Date : 2015-03-20
Collection: Local History Index (Citations)
Obituary for Dr. Noble Pierce Sherwood, or Noble Sherwood, a physician and medical authority on the streptococcus germ attending the Switzer Elementary School and Manual Training High School before…
Date : 1961-02-21
Collection: Local History Index (Citations)
Article describes the opening of the City Ice Arts Center located in the old Kansas City Ice Building at 2029 Campbell Street in the Crossroads Arts District. Sean Kelley, owner, sees it as "a…
Date : 2011-01-09
Collection: Local History Index (Citations)
Biographical article about Dr. A. H. Cordier, former surgeon and professor at Kansas City Medical College, retiring from medicine to become a prominent bird photographer, with photos.
Date : 1923-12-09
Collection: Local History Index (Citations)
Announcement of the closing of the Kansas City University of Physicians and Surgeons, following the decision by the State Board of Health.
Date : 1943-11-27
Collection: Local History Index (Citations)
Obituary for Dr. Joseph Evans, police surgeon of Kansas City, Kansas, for 21 years, dying on September 22, 1969.
Date : 1969-09-22
Collection: Local History Index (Citations)
Obituaries for Dr. Timothy Bourke, a physician for more than 60 years, dying at the age of 89.
Date : 1973-05-30
Collection: Local History Index (Citations)
Obituary for Dr. F. Kenneth Albrecht, dying on March 8, 1950, the physician editor of "G. P.," the new journal of the American Academy of General Practice medicine and once a musical…
Date : 1950-03-08
Collection: Local History Index (Citations)
Article that covers the 14 year long renovation of the Kansas State Capitol building that was completed near the end of 2013. Details of the project as well as information related to tours of the…
Date : 2014-07-20
Collection: Local History Index (Citations)
Article profiles Ken and Cindy McClain who have poured their energies and their fortune into reviving the Independence square. Starting with Ophelia's restaurant, which they opened in the…
Date : 2010-05-09
Collection: Local History Index (Citations)
File containing a brief biographical article about Dr. Walter Maddux, a native of Kansas City, Kansas, and newly appointed head of pediatrics "in the great hospital that is to be erected in…
Date : 1930-02-10
Collection: Local History Index (Citations)
Biographical article about Dr. Paul Harrington, a native Kansas Citian and developer of an internationally recognized technique of spinal therapy, honored as Alumnus of the Year of the University of…
Date : 1975-05-17
Collection: Local History Index (Citations)
Brief profile of and interview with Elizabeth Rosin, founder of Rosin Preservation LLC in 2006. Through partnerships with additional firms, she has has helped to preserve more than $500 million…
Date : 2015-01-16
Collection: Local History Index (Citations)
Vertical file contains a photo and obituary for Dr. J. Ottoway Henley, "physician and surgeon in Kansas City for 28 years." He was born in Ironton, Missouri in 1895 and graduated from…
Date : 1948-08-27
Collection: Local History Index (Citations)
Photo and article about the Cabot Westside Clinic, a health clinic "serv[ing] primarily Hispanic residents from Northeast, the Westside, and Kansas City, Kansas with a full complement of medical…
Date : 2001-09-12
Collection: Local History Index (Citations)
Obituary for Dr. James Walter Graham, or James Graham, practicing medicine here for 63 years and serving as physician for federal prisoners held in the Jackson County jail, dying on November 7, 1970…
Date : 1970-11-08
Collection: Local History Index (Citations)
Obituary for Dr. Harold Victor Zuber, or Harold Zuber, a widely-known Kansas City orthopedic surgeon dying at the age of 60 in 1965.
Date : 1965-04-11
Collection: Local History Index (Citations)
Obituary for Dr. Anthony Scimeca, a physician and director of the Polyclinic Medical Hospital from 1898 until his death in 1953.
Date : 1953-07-01
Collection: Local History Index (Citations)
Photos and captions about the construction of the Kansas City Athletic Club building, showing its steel skeleton and at near completion.
Date : 1923-01-14
Collection: Local History Index (Citations)
Photo and obituary for Dr. Frank Feierabend, "74, of 7345 Wyoming, an orthopedic surgeon" at Saint Mary's Hospital since 1923, born in Atchison, Kansas.
Date : 1971-12-12
Collection: Local History Index (Citations)
The former Gate City National Bank building at 1111 Grand Boulevard will undergo an $11 million renovation to become the 43-room Grand Hotel. From 2000 to 2006 the building housed Club Chemical,…
Date : 2011-01-15
Collection: Local History Index (Citations)
Obituary for Dr. Charles Still, a homeopathic physician and oldest son of Dr. Andrew Taylor Still (a pioneer in the field from Kirksville, Missouri), dying at the age of 90 in 1955.
Date : 1955-07-07
Collection: Local History Index (Citations)