Hyde Park, Kansas City

The Beacon is a non-profit online news outlet in the Kansas City metropolitan area focusing on public-interest journalism. It is Kansas City’s first regional nonprofit news outlet that is not a public television or radio station.It was founded in 2020 by Kelsey Ryan, a former Investigative journalist for the Kansas City Star and a 2018 Pulitzer Prize finalist. It launched earlier than planned on March 12, 2020, in response to community information needs with the COVID-19 pandemic. The news network is overseen by an eight-member Board of Directors and the Kansas City newsroom works with a 10-member community advisory board. The news organization received initial funding from a Google News Initiative Innovation Challenge in 2019 and has received additional funding from the Solutions Journalism Network in order to write about broadband infrastructure in Kansas and Missouri. It is a member of the Institute for Nonprofit News, Local Independent Online News Publishers (LION), and the Kansas Press Association.The Beacon won the 2020 "Emerging Publisher" award from Local Independent Online News (LION) Publishers. It also won the 2021 "Community Champion" award from the Institute for Nonprofit News.In 2021, The Beacon expanded into a regional news network beyond Kansas City, and launched a second local newsroom in Wichita, Kansas, called The Wichita Beacon. The expansion into a regional news network from a single newsroom was spurred with a commitment of $1.1 million from the Wichita Community Foundation and funding from the American Journalism Project.

The Newbern Hotel is a historic hotel/apartment building in Kansas City, Missouri, United States, that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP).

Squier Park is a historic neighborhood in midtown Kansas City, Missouri, USA. It encompasses sixteen blocks bounded by Armour Boulevard on the north, 39th Street on the south, Troost Avenue on the west, and Paseo Boulevard on the east. It is primarily a residential neighborhood, with businesses along Troost Avenue. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 2012.

The Derrick Thomas Academy was a tuition-free, public charter school in Kansas City, Missouri. It opened in 2001 and was named for former Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Derrick Thomas. As of the 2009-2010 school year, the Academy served approximately 1,000 students in Grades PreK-8. It was an EdisonLearning charter school, but parted ways with EdisonLearning in 2011.

39th Street is a major east–west street in Kansas City, Missouri, running almost 5 miles from State Line Road at the Kansas-Missouri border to Topping Avenue in Kansas City's East Side. It was originally named Rosedale Avenue as it led to the town of Rosedale. It continues west into Kansas as 39th Avenue through The University of Kansas Hospital's Kansas City, Kansas, campus. Running through Kansas City's urban core, 39th Street connects many historic neighborhoods including Volker, Roanoke, Westport, Hyde Park, Squier Park, and Ivanhoe. It plays an important role as an east-west artery, providing cross-town traffic with access to most of Kansas City's main north-south thoroughfares: State Line Road, Southwest Trafficway, Broadway Boulevard, Main Street, Gillham Road, Troost Avenue, The Paseo, U.S. Route 71, Prospect Avenue, and Emanuel Cleaver II Boulevard. West of Gillham Road, 39th Street is zoned predominantly commercial or mixed-use space as compared to residential zoning to the east.

Southmoreland is a neighborhood located in Kansas City, Missouri. Home to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art and the Kansas City Art Institute, it is noteworthy for its reputation as home to Kansas City’s artistic and intellectual elite. Southmoreland neighborhood is located between 39th Street on the north (bordering Hanover Place and Central Hyde Park), Rockhill and Gillham Road on the east (bordering South Hyde Park), Emanuel Cleaver II Boulevard on the south (bordering Country Club Plaza and Park Central) and Main Street on the west (bordering Plaza Westport and Old Westport). In 2019, following finalized plans for a Streetcar extension from Union Station to UMKC, the neighborhood has experienced a massive wave of new real estate development along Main Street.

The Unicorn Theatre (Kansas City) is a not-for-profit theatre operating in Kansas City, Missouri. It has a history of premiering cutting-edge contemporary plays and musicals that have never before been produced in the area.

Westminster Congregational Church was an historic Congregational church at 3600 Walnut Street in Kansas City, Missouri. The church was started in 1904 and was added to the National Register in 1980. Despite a protest the church was demolished in 2021.

Mineral Hall in Kansas City, Missouri is a historic building constructed in 1903. An elaborate example of Prairie School architecture by Louis Singleton Curtiss, it originally served as a residence.

The 1855 Harris-Kearney House is an historical site located in Kansas City, Missouri, in the Westport neighborhood. Originally, the house was located at the intersection of modern-day Westport Road and Main Street (where the Katz Drug Store was located) The home is the oldest brick residence in the city.This Greek Revival mansion was built in 1855, and was owned by Col. John "Jack" Harris and his wife Henrietta. The Mansion House, as it was known, was moved to 4000 Baltimore, in 1922.

Armour Boulevard, Armour, or 35th Street is a major west–east main street that runs in Kansas City, Missouri, USA, from Broadway Boulevard to The Paseo. It is named in honor of Simeon B. Armour of Armour and Company.

The Kansas City Art Institute (KCAI) is a private, independent, four-year college of fine arts and design founded in 1885 in Kansas City, Missouri. The college is an accredited member of the National Association of Schools of Art and Design (NASAD), the Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design (AICAD) and the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools. It has approximately 75 faculty members and 700 students. KCAI offers the Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, in which students undertake a comprehensive liberal arts program with a studio major in animation, art history, ceramics, creative writing, digital filmmaking, fiber arts, graphic design, illustration, interactive art, painting, photography, printmaking, product design, or sculpture. KCAI offers a minor in Art and Design Entrepreneurship, a collaborative program with University of Missouri – Kansas City Regnier Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation.