We had dinner here, at the Majestic, Kansas City’s steakhouse,The Majestic is also a Jazz club, but jazz combos were not playing the night we were there.There was a piano player, however.Kansas City strip.Twin Filets Oscar style.Creme brulee.
Union Station, like many across the country, once was bustling with train traffic and passengers. Now, it’s little more than a venue for shows and and couple restaurants.Electric baggage wagon and cart from 1914.Kansas City Massacre 1933 story.Bullet hole from the shootout.Another one.
The Community Christian Church was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and build in 1942. The angular façade and rhombus-shaped plan conform to the irregularities of the sloping site. Gunite was sprayed over sheets of corrugated steel that were then sandwiched together to form the walls. The innovative material allowed Wright to reduce the thickness of the walls to a mere 2.75 inches.
Kansas City skyline from the National World War I Museum.Kansas City skyline from the National World War I Museum, later the same day!Western Auto used to be a hardware store chain.Broadway BoulevardI thought this was funny.We thought this was for a suspension bridge, but it is actually for the Kansas City Convention Center.Hallmark Cards’ headquarters are in Kansas City, across the street from our hotel.The World’s Largest Shuttlecock, at the The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.Also at the art museum, Rush Hour sculpture by George Segal, 1995. Evokes “the deep isolation that can occur even when we are surrounded by others.”
C. H. Lebold Mansion. This is the site of Abilene’s first settlers’ home, the log cabin of Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Hersey, in 1858. Also the birthplace of Abilene’s first white child. Mrs. Hersey named the town Abilene. This house was built in 1880.The Seelye Mansion was built in 1905 for Dr. A. B. Seelye, who made his fortune in patent medicine. The Patent Medicine Museum occupies a former Seelye laboratory which has been moved to the rear of the mansion.
The mansion is like a time capsule. Most of the home’s furnishings were purchased at the 1904 St Louis World’s Fair. The furnishings cost more than the $55,000 that was spent building the 11,000 square feet home.
Dr. Seelye’s daughters, Helen and Marion, were little girls when the home was built. They never married and lived in the home into their 90s – leaving almost everything right where their mother had placed it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower delivered ice to the Seelye Mansion when he was a young boy. The Seelye sisters recounted stories of Ike as a man from the “other side of the tracks”.
The home was featured on the History Channel’s “Mysteries at the Mansion”.
