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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1NM2_scarritt-arcade_Kansas-City-MO.html
The exterior of the Scarritt Arcade with its ornate terra cotta shows the influence of Louis Sullivan and the 'Chicago School' of architecture. An interior skylighted open well, with windows on all sides, allows natural light into the offices whic…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1N3R_from-steamboat-landing-to-city_Kansas-City-MO.html
The town was only a spark in 1834 when entrepreneur and tradesman John Calvin McCoy cut a primitive path from this store to a prominent rock ledge on the river - a perfect landing for riverboats. The steamboat John Hancock, laden with goods for Mc…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1N3Q_waterfront-town-to-metropolis_Kansas-City-MO.html
By May of 1854 the air was already electrified by the sizzling-hot debate of pro-slavery versus anti-slavery when Congress passed the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Now, the western territory was open and available, and whoever settled Kansas first would de…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1N3P_building-through-the-bluffs_Kansas-City-MO.html
When Kansas City Mayor Milton Payne took office in 1855 he face an immediate and formidable task: to make his city accessible by cutting streets south from the Missouri River through the looming bluffs along the riverbank.
He authorized almost a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1N3O_gilliss-house-hotel_Kansas-City-MO.html
The stone wall that still exists today against the bluff between Delaware and Wyandotte Streets is the remains of the once-famous Gilliss House Hotel. Built around 1850, the lively riverfront hotel went by various names including the Union, Americ…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1N3M_hannibal-bridge_Kansas-City-MO.html
It was July 3rd, 1869. A crowd of 40,000 elbowed their way onto the banks of the Missouri to celebrate the dedication of a politically empowering marvel - the Hannibal Bridge, the first railroad bridge across the Missouri River. Perhaps more than …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM17H0_holy-rosarys-bell-tower-cross_Kansas-City-MO.html
In loving memory ofRobert Bisbee,and in gratitudeto his wife,Carol Bisbee, fordesigning, building andinstalling the cross onHoly Rosary's bell toweron the10th of September 2003.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM15M8_the-old-chouteau-trading-post-le-vieil-etablissement-commercial-chouteau_Kansas-City-MO.html
(Side A)In 1821, Francois and Berenice Chouteau arrived from St. Louis to establish Kansas City's first commercial emporium, the "Chouteau Trading Post", and in effect to found Kansas City. Francois was the grandson of Pierre Laclede, founder of S…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM15LS_kansas-citys-old-square-le-vieux-carre-de-kansas-city_Kansas-City-MO.html
(Side A)Like New Orleans' "Vieux Carre," Kansas City's old market square and its surrounding Old Town streets in River Quay are oriented on the bias to the river in the Old World fashion, rather than on the strict east-west Yankee survey. That is …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM15LR_oldham-hotel_Kansas-City-MO.html
Smith, Rea, Lovitt: Architects