Paseo West neighborhood historic photos

[Belvidere]

The Perry Place Apartments at 9th & Troost burnt recently. I imagine it will be a vacant lot soon enough.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/pcP2kxzfJaDmoXfw6

https://imgur.com/a/XM2ydQk

The neighborhood tried hard to save it. The city didn't move in time or couldn't move in time. The owner did seem to make a good faith effort to board it up. This was accessible housing, around 40 units, that are now gone.

We're guessing they're about 120 people living an alleys near Independence Avenue. They have been offered services, but most have refused. I don't believe in over-incarcerating people, but we're at the point where we have to start enforcing drug and sex trafficking laws, as well as arson even though it's hard to prove. They are preying on homeless people who are trying to use the shelters.

[FangKC]

That should have been a building that the City used the housing trust fund to get renovated and used to get people into supportive housing.

I can think of other apartment buildings that are sitting empty awaiting renovations to be completed that are sitting ducks for this type of fire loss.

https://www.google.com/maps/@39.1140116 ... FQAw%3D%3D

https://www.google.com/maps/@39.1132723 ... FQAw%3D%3D

https://www.google.com/maps/place/918+B ... FQAw%3D%3D

[FangKC]

Buildings that used to be on the block occupied by Zahner's offices in 1940.



The corner building that used to be at 800-02 Paseo (SW corner 8th and Paseo). Zahner's offices are on this block now.



The building at 1422-24 E. 9th Street (NW corner of 9th and Paseo).



On the north side of 9th Street between Paseo and Lydia were houses at 1406-1420 E. 9th Street.



The National Church of Positive Christianity on the NE corner of E. 9th and Lydia.



The east side of Lydia between 8th and 9th streets.



The SE corner of E.8th and Lydia.



A house at 1407 E. 8th Street.



A building at 1415-21 E. 8th Street.

[FangKC]

1406 E. 15th Street (Truman Road) in 1940. The building to the left is Paseo Hall.



The Harlem Nite Club after a mob bombing in January 1935. The club was in the Paseo Hall building on the north side of the street (1414 E. 15th St.--Truman Road) near Paseo. It had been built as a dance club named Dehoney’s Dance Academy and could accommodate 2,200 individuals. This was one of two locations for the Harlem Nite Club. Musician Bennie Moten was the first black manager of the hall.

In 1938, St. Stephen's Church bought Paseo Hall.







https://charlieparkerskc.org/map/gigging/paseo-hall

http://www.kcjazzlark.com/2013/12/paseo ... art-1.html

[FangKC]

Architect Frank M. Howe designed the Scottish Rite Temple at 15th (Truman Road) and Troost. It was the first Masonic Temple in Missouri. The temple opened March 20, 1904, and the structure was used until a new temple was built in 1930 at Linwood and the Paseo. The Friendship Baptist Church purchased the building in 1940. Since the early 1960s, the Evangelistic Center Church occupied the building until it was destroyed by fire in 2016.





https://www.kshb.com/news/local-news/mu ... lding-fire

[FangKC]

On the NE corner of E. 12th and Forest was the building where the famous Spinning Wheel nightclub was located (1208 E. 12th St.) during the jazz era in Kansas City. The club was in the third retail space from the corner.

Inside the Spinning Wheel in 1930.



https://libweb.umkc.edu/spec-col/local6 ... ls-p15.htm

[taxi]

Thanks, Fang!

[moderne]

Had trouble placing some of these until I realized 15th St. became Truman.

[FangKC]

I fixed that Moderne. I forget that people don't remember the name change. Fifteenth Street was renamed to Truman Road on Presidential Inauguration Day in January, 1949.

[FangKC]

Photos from the block bounded by Harrison, Troost, Admiral, and E. 8th Street.

The Vendome Hotel at 1012-18 E. 8th Street. Troost is the intersection to the right looking east. The hotel was on the north side of the street.



How it looks now.

https://www.google.com/maps/@39.1040812 ... FQAw%3D%3D

Below: An attractive house at 1010 E. 8th Street. That is the Vendome Hotel to the right.



Below: 1000-02 and 1004-06 E. 8th Street. 1000-02 E. 8th is on the NE corner of Harrison.



Below: 725-27 Harrison.



Below: Houses at 713-19 Harrison.



Below: 709 Harrison.



Below: 1001 Admiral.



Below: 1007 Admiral.



Below: 1009 Admiral.



Below: 1015-17 Admiral.



Below: 1019-27 Admiral (SW corner of Troost). This is the only building on the block that remains.



How it looks now.

https://www.google.com/maps/@39.1054397 ... FQAw%3D%3D

Below: 714-18 Troost.



Below: The Burwood Apartments at 720-22 Troost.