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Eon Blue wrote: ↑Sun Mar 02, 2025 5:34 pm 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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Thanks, Fang!

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

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.

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.

The photos below are of structures that existed on the block bounded by 13th, 14th, Troost, and Harrison in 1940. This block was mostly removed by freeway construction. Only the parcel where the Odd Fellows Hall stood remains and has a structure on it.

Odd Fellows Hall site today:

https://www.google.com/maps/@39.0981445 ... FQAw%3D%3D

Below: Odd Fellows Hall on the SW corner of 13th and Troost.



Below: 1304 Troost.



1308 Troost.



1310 Troost.



1312 Troost.



1314 Troost.



This attractive house was at 1316 Troost.



1328 Troost.



An apartment building at 1014-16 E. 14th Street.

The east side of Harrison from 13th to 14th streets.

A house at 1301 Harrison.



1307 Harrison.



This really cool house was at 1309 Harrison.



1311 Harrison.



1315 Harrison.



1317 Harrison.



1323 Harrison.



An apartment building on the NE corner of Harrison and E. 14th Street.

This group of photos shows buildings on the east side of Paseo from 10th to 9th streets.

Below: The colonade apartments at 923-933 Paseo Boulevard (at 10th St.).



Location today:

https://www.google.com/maps/@39.101682, ... FQAw%3D%3D

Below: 921 Paseo Boulevard.



Below: 917 Paseo Boulevard.



Below: 915 Paseo Boulevard.



Below: 911 Paseo Boulevard.



Below: 901 Paseo Boulevard.

Do you have any idea how many buildings or how many housing units were there at one point? At its highest? I wish we had a map.

I don't know off the top of my head. One could go block by block and count the houses and then the apartment buildings, estimate how many apartments were in each building, and come up with a rough count.

Mid-West Medical College at 1424 Admiral Boulevard (north side of the street between Paseo and Lydia).

Emerson School was located at Pacific and Tracy (553 Tracy). Emerson was originally an all-black school, later known as Garrison School. It survived freeway construction.

FangKC wrote: ↑Sun Apr 06, 2025 1:50 am Emerson School was located at Pacific and Tracy (553 Tracy). Emerson was originally an all-black school, later known as Garrison School. It survived freeway construction.

Some of my neighbors attended. It's not ancient history.

The Garrison School was designed by architect William F. Hackney and completed in 1887. The last mention I can find of it as an active school is in 1974. The District put it up for sale in 1977. It was sold to KC Parks and Recreation, and the building was demolished in 1981. A playground was later built on the site.

The photos below show structures that once existed on the block bound by 11th, 12th, Harrison, and Troost. None shown in the photos have survived.

Only a commercial building--built after 1939--at 1104-06 Troost remains on the block from that era. It didn't appear on the 1940 tax photos for the block. It's occupied now by Gate City Glass Co.

Ability KC Industries and United Contractors of Kansas City occupy existing structures that replaced earlier ones on that block.

Below is the NW corner of 12th and Troost. The building is 1130-34 Troost. Lustig's Market and Safeway Taxi are seen in the photo.



Below: All the structures below were on the west side of Troost between 11th and 12th streets. The first retail spaces past the corner building were at 1122-28 Troost Avenue. A barber pole indicates that one tenant is a barber.



Below: Gene's Radio Service occupies 1120-A Troost.



Below: One of the tenants of 1120 Troost is Tylow's Delicatessan.



At 1116-18 Troost, we see Sun Cleaners. I can't make out the other tenant.



A house remains at 1108 Troost.