The North-East Branch will be closed Sunday, June 16, due to staff shortages.
Signature Event
Wednesday, February 25, 2015
6:30pm
The latest installment of the Library’s Emmy Award-winning series, Meet the Past with Crosby Kemper III, spotlights one of t...
Signature Event
A conversation with eminent writer Ernest Hemingway, as portrayed by Rusty Sneary....
Signature Event
Thursday, September 11, 2014
6:30pm
From Kansas City’s signature Country Club Plaza to pristine shopping districts and neighborhoods across the country, J.C. Nichols’ imprint on the Amer...
Signature Event
Sunday, July 27, 2014
2:00pm
A former employee of Frank Lloyd Wright, Clarence E. Shepard specialized in residential architecture and was an artist and landscape engineer. He desi...
Signature Event
Sunday, June 22, 2014
2:00pm
Chicago architect George Washington Maher was a giant of the Prairie School movement, whose buildings are treasured by communities lucky enough to hav...
Signature Event
Thursday, October 10, 2013
6:30pm
Meet the Past with Crosby Kemper III returns for a conversation with Tom Bass, portrayed by veteran actor Wa...
Signature Event
Sunday, May 5, 2013
2:00pm
This postcard tour of a bygone era offers views of Independence Boulevard (Kansas City’s first boulevard) and the rugged beauty of the city’s only urb...
Signature Event
Sunday, April 28, 2013
2:00pm
Named for a prominent turn-of-the-century business mogul, the area around Jacob Loose Park is still one of Kansas City’s most beautiful areas largely...
Signature Event
Sunday, April 14, 2013
2:00pm
The lake in Troost Park was once an encampment used by Mormons migrating to Independence. Linked together by Linwood Boulevard and The Paseo, Kansas C...
Signature Event
Sunday, April 7, 2013
2:00pm
Taking the old Independence Road through the eastern environs of Kansas City toward Independence, it’s easy to miss some of Kansas City’s richest hist...