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I'm starting a thread showing historic photos of building in the Paseo West neighborhood.

I may show some that would be outside what we now consider Paseo West, but were still adjacent and connected in one large cohesive, dense commercial and residential neighborhood. Specifically I mean some neighborhoods east of Paseo and south of 15th Street (now Truman Road).

What we think of now as Paseo West is the area bounded by I-70 on the west, Paseo Boulevard on the east, Truman Road on the south, and Independence Avenue and I-29 on the north. Three commercial streets served the neighborhood: 15th Street (later Truman Road), 12th Street, and Independence Avenue.

Paseo West looking northeast.

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The neighborhood was served by three movie theaters: the New Center Theater at 15th and Troost, the Admiral Theater at 8th and Virginia, and the Castle Theater at Paseo and 12th Street.

Shown below is the New Center Theater building in 1920 at E. 15th (later Truman Road) and Troost. In addition to the movie theater, the 7-story building's tenants were Spaulding Commercial College and Kansas City College of Osteopathy and Surgery. Murphy's Drug Store is on the first-floor corner of 15th Street (later Truman Road) and Troost Avenue.

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The one-screen theater opened in 1916 and had 1400 seats. The building was designed by the Boller Brothers, a local firm that specialized in theaters and designed many in the KC metro, and more than 200 across the country.

https://cinematreasures.org/theaters/18048

Spaulding's Commercial College also was located at an earlier time in the New York Life Building at 9th and Baltimore, on the SW corner of 11th and Main, and in the Insurance Building at 318 E. 10th on the NW corner of 10th and Oak now owned by Abnos. Other later locations were 3103 Troost and 3208 Troost. The college taught bookkeeping, shorthand, typewriting, modern languages, and higher mathematics.

Kansas City College of Osteopathy and Surgery would later evolve into Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences at Independence Avenue and Woodland.

Later the New Center Theater building would become the headquarters for The Calvin Company which produced mostly educational and training industrial films. The Calvin Company would become a training ground for filmmaker Robert Altman. The Calvin Company was a self-contained production company within one building. They made movies as well as processed and printed them. The facility had soundstages and film printing labs. The company employed copywriters, film editors, directors, camera operators, as well as all the related film production staff.

The Calvin Company is discussed in this archived video starting at minute 29.00.

https://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb ... 4-83xsjcz4

The company closed in the mid-1980s and the building was demolished to create an athletic field for the Manual Career Tech Center next door.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/3208+ ... ?entry=ttu

The Admiral Theater (below) was located at 1312-1314 East 8th Street in Paseo West when it still was primarily residential. It seated 800 and was open still in 1950.

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The Castle Theater was located at 1500 East 12th Street (at Paseo). It seated 782.

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Photo from 1962 shows when 12th and Troost had a real functioning urban intersection. What is seen is the north and south block of 12th between Harrison and Troost.

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Here are aerials of the neighborhood.

https://kchistory.org/islandora/object/ ... m/OBJ/view

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Paseo West before freeway construction.

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Looking at the Dearing Flats on the NE corner of 12th and Troost in 1940. On the right side is the Highland Drug Store in the Lafayette Hotel on the SE corner of that intersection.

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The Dearing Flats in the 1920s before other buildings were constructed around it.

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The Dean Hotel was on the south side of 12th Street west of Troost.

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Kansas City College of Osteopathy and Surgery on the NW corner of 11th and Harrison. The concrete and steel building had been built in 1915 for Wesley Hospital. KCCOS left the building in 1972 to move to their new campus at Independence and Woodland--what would later be called KC University of Medicine and Biosciences.

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Below you can see the parking lot on the footprint of the former college building.

https://www.google.com/maps/@39.1010422 ... ?entry=ttu

The Inez Apartment Hotel on the NE corner of 9th and Troost.

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The Orville Apartment Hotel on the NW corner of 9th and Forest. It was just east of the Inez Apartment Hotel. The Orville survived until 1998.

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This 4-story apartment building was on 8th between Troost and Forest on the south side of the street. It would have been 1115-23 E. 8th Street.

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The SW corner of E. 8th and Forest Avenue.

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Kansas City aerial 1955. Look at how much density there was in the neighborhoods east of Charlotte stretching to Brooklyn.

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First Church of Christ Scientist was on the SW corner of E. 9th and Forest. It was destroyed by fire.

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I'm not yet sure exactly where this photo is but I think it's one of the blocks on E. 14th Street at Harrison.

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The Crown Drug on the SE corner of 12th and Paseo.

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The Castle Theater on the NE corner of E. 12th and Paseo and Crown Drug on the opposite corner to the south.

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Below: The Belmont Flats were on the north side of E. 15th between Tracy and Virginia.

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Below: The Kelly Flats were on the north side of E. 16th between Tracy and Virginia.

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Below: The Virginia Avenue side of the Kelly Flats looking south towards E. 16th Street.

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Sanborn maps showing location of Belmont Flats and Kelly Flats.

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To enlarge map, click on link.

https://kchistory.org/image/sanborn-map ... ffset%5D=2

The Quinlan rowhouse apartments were on the NE corner of E. 8th and Highland. They would later be called Walker Place. The Quinlan block was built during the building boom of the late 1880s and is first shown on municipal plat books of 1891.

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A postcard of Walker Place.

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Walker Place in 1962. By then, the porches and corner onion dome had been demolished.

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SW corner of E. 14th and Troost.

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The SE corner of E. 14th and Harrison.

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A house on Harrison between E. 14th and 15th streets.

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This building was on the block bounded by 14th and 15th streets and Campbell and Harrison.

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Apartments on the north side of E. 11th Street near Campbell.

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House at 1005 Forest Avenue.

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The NW corner of E. 11th Street and Forest.

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613 Forest Avenue.

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FangKC wrote: Sun Jan 19, 2025 5:03 am Image

The 9th and Paseo fountain in 1910.

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Parkview Hotel, 1000 Paseo Boulevard

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1008-1010 Paseo Boulevard

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Dr. Generous Henderson's residence at 1016 Paseo.

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1100-1112 Admiral Boulevard (north side of street at Troost Avenue)

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600 block of Forest, and gas station on the NW corner of Admiral and Forest

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Eva's Buffet Lunch restaurant at 900 E. 13th Street at Campbell.

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Salvation Army Thrift Store at 901 Tracy Avenue.

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Fantastic. Thank you, Fang, for all of this!
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FangKC wrote: Sun Jan 19, 2025 7:40 am Salvation Army Thrift Store at 901 Tracy Avenue.

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Nice photos. That area is sad today but has been that way for a long time. There are a few of the stately buildings of the past remaining but not many. Being cut off from downtown by I29/70 probably sent that area into its initial demise.

https://www.google.com/maps/@39.1031829 ... FQAw%3D%3D

I have to wonder if the Salvation Army setting up shop in that neighborhood, way back then (it looks like a 1920/30 era building?), is what led to the eventual concentration of homeless services and other similar charitable organizations in the Paseo West area.
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It's like a vanished civilization. If not for this photographic evidence who would believe this existed in KC only 3 or 4 generations ago?
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