Changes implemented by the Missouri Department of Economic Development (DED) are making it much more challenging for downtown residential projects in Kansas City to qualify for the state historic tax credit program.
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Just north of Walters Pumpkin Patch sit an old church, the last vestiges of a town called De Graff. Now called the De Graff Community Church, the classic country church carries a Burns address of 1145 N.W. 108th.
Constructed in 1902 as First Presbyterian Church of De Graff, about 50 people call the church their own. And it has grown over the course of the last year despite COVID-19. It has been a fantastic time, said minister Kurt Spivey, who has led the church since January of 2020. The church has grown, even with the virus.
This week some good news came for the church Gov. Laura Kelly announced the Historic Sites Board of Review awarded $1,168,492 for 15 historic preservation projects across the state as part of the 2021 round of Heritage Trust Fund grants. In that award is $62,990 for the historic church.
Updated: 5:51 PM CST Jan 12, 2021 During the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, photographers captured a man carrying a confederate flag as he passed a portrait of Massachusetts senator Charles Sumner. Sumner was beaten in the capitol after his “Crime Against Kansas” speech which argued for the admission of Kansas to the union as a free state. At Sumner Academy of Arts and Sciences in Kansas City, Kansas, teachers are talking with students about the riot while drawing lessons from the school’s namesake.“It s really unfortunate, but it s also very ironic. And it also gives us an opportunity to have a discussion on the polar opposites that we see in that picture,” said Jamelle Brown, Debate and Forensics teacher at Sumner Academy. “Charles Sumner was all about bringing people together. He was one who was not looked upon very wisely from some of the people in his party, because he was so radical in the whole idea that we do not need slavery. And so we need to make