The North-East branch will be closed Monday, September 23, for staff training.
Signature Event
Sunday, July 10, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
Elmer Boillot and Jesse Lauck designed houses in the Coleman Highlands, Sunset Hills and Country Club District neighborhoods, including The Walnuts. T...
Signature Event
Sunday, June 12, 2016
2:00pm
In Person
Author, photographer, and local historian Bruce Mathews discusses Charles A. Smith’s work in the first installment of the Library’...
Signature Event
Sunday, August 2, 2015
2:00pm
In Person
Mike Yeates and Andrew Mackey explain how they took an all-but-forgotten home and made it the office site of their business, The Real Estate Store. Th...
Signature Event
Sunday, July 26, 2015
2:00pm
In Person
Jon Knight, who oversees design senior principal at Populous, describes the changes being made to the Board of Trade Building (480...
Signature Event
Sunday, July 19, 2015
2:00pm
In Person
PGAV Architects’ Mike Schaadt and Kimberlee Ried of the National Archives at Kansas City explain how the Federal...
Signature Event
Sunday, July 12, 2015
2:00pm
In Person
Local author, educator, and historian William Worley discusses the New York Life Insurance Building (20 W. 9th St.). Regarded as K...
Signature Event
Wednesday, October 15, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
It’s easy to think of World War I as a European war, but fierce fighting all over the Middle East brought about great changes on socio-economic, cu...
Signature Event
Sunday, October 12, 2014
2:00pm
In Person
Before the birth of Kansas City jazz, the musical community served up ragtime and blues. In 1917, the military-themed anthem “Over There” became a...
Signature Event
Wednesday, October 8, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
What happens when German spies collaborate to unleash a campaign of terror upon America at the start of World War I?
In Dark Inva...
Signature Event
Friday, October 3, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
Award-winning author Ann Bausum tells a true story of a terrier that wandered onto an Army training field, befriending Pvt. James Robert Conroy and ac...