The Community Curator program of Kansas City Museum invites historians and history educators to share their perspectives on artifacts they choose from the Museum collection. This provides fresh insight about artifacts and collections of Kansas City Museum and Union Station, and welcomes diverse input from the Kansas City history community. Community Curator lectures are presented the third Sunday of each month in Collections Storage at Union Station Kansas City, allowing the actual artifact to be presented with the observations of our Community Curator.
Community Curator Lecture Series is the fourth Tuesday of every month, at 6 p.m.
When: Tuesday, February 23 at 6 p.m.
Where: Union Station’s Town Hall
Address: 30 West Pershing Rd Kansas City, MO. 64108
Admission: Free - Space is limited click here to preregister.
Curator: David Dowell, Principal, El Dorado Architects
Human figural ornamentation appears in all types of architecture throughout history, vernacular and formal, passing in and out of fashion. During the late 19th and early 20th centuries in America, highly formal architecture included masses of decorative ornament, figural and otherwise. This is the case with the former residence of Robert Long and the home of Kansas City Museum, Corinthian Hall.
Corinthian Hall, arguably the most important historic architecture in the region, belonged to one of the region’s inarguably most important families. Lumber millionaire and civic entrepreneur Robert A. Long and his wife and daughters were key figures in the years of Kansas City’s urban growth that are often referred to as a “civilizing” period. During this time – about 1875 through 1920 – the economic roots of the city flourished and brought to flower the acculturating influences of the humanities – the great study of human intellectual accomplishment.
Space is limited click here to preregister.
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