Abandoned Kansas City: Forgotten Brought to Light

by Regina Daniel

Overview

As progress continues to move onward and upward throughout Kansas City, there will always be places left behind. From the industrial to residential and many places in between, all these structures have more stories to tell. Each one of these locations are smaller steppingstones in the foundation of Kansas City's establishment, and share the commonality of being left empty. Their original purposes are diverse, with timelines going back as far as the 1890s. In addition to some interesting and obscure backstories, this book takes an in-depth look inside all these buildings that many of us have driven by and wondered about for years, in a widespread montage of photography that details as much as possible. In this second instalment of Abandoned Kansas City, more of the forgotten is brought into the light.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781634992565
Publisher:	Arcadia Publishing SC
Publication date:	09/28/2020
Series:	America Through Time
Pages:	96
Sales rank:	1,101,609
Product dimensions:	6.50(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

REGINA DANIEL specializes in urban exploration photography. She is also the owner and operator of Red Vixen's Photography. Covering much of the Kansas City area and the surrounding vicinities, she has gone on to travel through six states in the Midwest doing her abandoned photography. What started as curiosity for the abandoned has turned into documenting the forgotten or lesser-known history lessons and photographing what has stood the test of time. That change from curiosity to preservation led her to write the books Abandoned Kansas City and Abandoned Picher, Oklahoma. Regina's passion to photograph the abandoned will continue to have a driving force as long as progress continues to leave the old and obsolete behind for better and brighter tomorrows.

Table of Contents

About the Author 4

Introduction 5

1 The First Church of Christ Scientists 11

2 Ridenour-Baker Grocery Company Building 19

3 Wyandot Swim Club 26

4 St. John the Divine Catholic Church 33

5 Ladd Elementary 39

6 The Belmont Hotel 59

7 Shankman and Michelson Buildings 67

8 Kansas City International Airport 76

9 The Mansion on the Hill 85

Bibliography 95