The North-East branch will be closed Monday, September 23, for staff training.
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
Wednesday, July 15, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
Lyndon Johnson had the misfortune of following the handsome, martyred John F. Kennedy into the White House and then miring his country in Vietnam....
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
Thursday, March 12, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
Short, balding, and soft-spoken, James Madison was overshadowed by many of America’s other, more dynamic Founding Fathers. His list of accomplishme...
Signature Event
Thursday, August 7, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
Thrust into the nation’s highest office following Richard Nixon’s resignation, Gerald R. Ford faced the impossible task of achieving much in little...
Signature Event
Sunday, July 27, 2014
2:00pm
In Person
A former employee of Frank Lloyd Wright, Clarence E. Shepard specialized in residential architecture and was an artist and landscape engineer. He d...
Signature Event
Sunday, June 22, 2014
2:00pm
In Person
Chicago architect George Washington Maher was a giant of the Prairie School movement, whose buildings are treasured by communities lucky enough to...
Signature Event
Wednesday, June 18, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
John Quincy Adams (1767-1848) is among the most overlooked presidents in U.S. history even though his progressive values helped shape the course of...
Signature Event
Tuesday, March 4, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
Due to a quirk in the calendar in the year 1849, one school of thought contends that Missourian David Rice Atchison deserves to be...