Kansas City's Historic Midtown Neighborhoods by Mary Jo Draper

Author:Mary Jo Draper
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: unknown
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2015-09-14T16:00:00+00:00

PENN SCHOOL, 1940. Steptoe was home to the oldest school for African Americans west of the Mississippi, the Penn School (pictured), which closed in 1957 and burned down in 1969. Steptoe also had two churches. The St. James Baptist Church still stands at the corner of Forty-third and Washington Streets. (Courtesy of MVSC-KCPL.)

ST. LUKE’S HOSPITAL. This hospital, founded in 1882, moved to a four-acre tract at Forty-fourth Street and Wornall Road and opened its doors in 1923. Earlier, the hospital had been located downtown, but, like churches and schools, it followed residents as they moved south. In announcing the new site, a May 15, 1921, Kansas City Star article said the location between Mill Creek Boulevard and Wornall Road was chosen because it was in the heart of the new south side residential areas. (Courtesy of Midtown KC Post.)

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