2012 Hyde Park
Historic Homes Tour
Saturday, October 6
10 AM — 6 PM
Candlelight Tour
Friday, October 5
10 AM — 6 PM
Upon selecting the 'Purchase Tickets' button, you will be taken to a secured site to purchase tickets. Tickets for the Tour will be available for pick up the day of the Tour at Stine and McClure, 3325 Gillham Plaza. Please bring your email receipt and photo id for The Candelight Tour. Instructions will be emailed after purchase.
About the Tour
It's easy to enjoy the Hyde Park Historic Homes Tour. We're conveniently located in Midtown Kansas City between Crown Center and the Plaza. We have designated parking at several locations where you can catch an air-conditioned shuttle bus and visit each stop on the Tour, or stroll at your leisure down tree-lined streets. (View Tour Homes).
Parking: Park at Stine and McClure, 3325 Gillham Plaza, or on the street near any of the homes. Tickets: Discounted tickets are available in advance of the Tour online ($9.00 seniors/student and $11.00 adults). On the day of the Tour, tickets are available at Stine and McClure or any of the Tour homes ($11.00 seniors/student and $13.00 adults). Shuttles: Shuttle buses run throughout the day between all houses, parking, food vendors, and the classic car show (see more below).
Featured Business: We are excited to feature a newly renovated MAC Properties apartment in a historic building on Armour Boulevard ิ๘ิ๘ิ๘ a modern twist on a historic apartment home perfect for today's urban dweller. Food Vendors: Have a snack and hear old favorites from the days of vinyl records at the northeast corner of Armour Boulevard and Kenwood. Food trucks will offer tasty treats while neighbors Chris Harper and Nicolas Bock will be spinning funk and soul. Classic Car Show: Classic homes are best complemented with classic cars. Enjoy our free classic car show. The car show will be held from 11:00 a.m. ิ๘ิ๘ิ๘ 2:00 p.m. on the 3400 block of Kenwood, just east of Trinity United Methodist Church and right next to the Food trucks.
About The Neighborhood
More than 180 years ago, a generation after Lewis & Clark first explored the land that our country purchased from France, Hyde Park was a prairie oasis, a refreshing rest stop for pioneers headed west on the Santa Fe Trail.
In the decades that would follow, tens of thousands of first generation Americans, mostly from Europe, would build lives and fortunes in a new neighborhood. At the dawn of the 20th Century, Kansas City was one of United Statesิ๘ิ๘ิ๘ largest cities. Hyde Park was a hub of culture and the arts, an incubator of new ideas, technologies and residential architecture, and a center of affluence and entrepreneurship in industries such as lumber, railroads, cattle, banking, publishing and grain.
Boom and bust. Economic strength and growth in Hyde Park continued until the end of the 1920s, when the Great Depression and Dust Bowl drought took a huge toll on household wealth and the ability of families to maintain homes. Many single family properties were broken up into apartments, initially to provide badly needed income.
Through the end of the 1940s, the apartment conversion trend continued amid renewed job growth in Kansas Cityิ๘ิ๘ิ๘s new aviation and defense industries as well as a severe shortage of both apartments and single-family homes. After World War II though the 1960s, the intense marketing of suburban space, coupled with rapid highway development, put urban areas like Hyde Park at a severe competitive disadvantage. The road to revival. The construction of Crown Center in 1970 was a turning point in the history of Hyde Park. Baby boomers working there and other places in Kansas City began to view our neighborhood as highly undervalued. It was a generation that fell in love with and restored the unique character of homes with features such as lead glass windows, ornate woodwork and fine architectural details.
Over the next three decades, Hyde Park would become a unique welcoming community, a place where neighbors look out for one another and care passionately about sustaining a high quality of life for all. Today, Hyde Park is a vibrant urban oasis for both homeowners and renters. Our neighborhood includes turn-of-the-century mansions, bungalows, shirtwaists, and more than 1,600 market-rate apartments on Armour Boulevard. The neighborhood hosts sought after schools, such as the Academie Lafayette Cherry Street campus and Notre Dame de Sion, as well as numerous historic churches and businesses.
An oasis for all seasons. As it has from the 1830s, Hyde Park continues to attract a diverse, active population who recognize that the quality of life here is world-class. Our park space and our proximity to major museums, the Plaza and Kansas City cultural attractions are unmatched.
Hyde Park has always been more than just a place to live. Walking its tree-lined streets, smelling its flowers in the springtime, seeing its fall colors in October, one senses a special feeling in the air ิ๘ิ๘ิ๘ an attitude of warmth and friendship, coupled with a positive spirit, energy and enthusiasm.
In Hyde Park, one finds a unique appreciation of nature, history and culture, and an openness that allows each new generation the opportunity to create a neighborhood like no other!
Upon selecting the 'Purchase Tickets' button, you will be taken to a secured site to purchase tickets. Tickets for the Tour will be available for pick up the day of the Tour at Stine and McClure, 3325 Gillham Plaza. Please bring your email receipt and photo id for The Candelight Tour. Instructions will be emailed after purchase.