Linwood Boulevard, Linwood, or 33rd Street is a major west/east main street that runs in

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from Broadway Boulevard to Van Brunt Boulevard. Linwood is one of the few named east-west streets in the Kansas City grid south of the Missouri River. It is one of the original boulevards designated by

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design in the late 19th century for Kansas City. It derives its name from the Linden trees.

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Two large historic districts on either side of the boulevard are on

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—the Old Hyde Park Historic District between Central and Baltimore on the south side and the Santa Fe Place Historic District (on a section of the

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) on the north between Indiana and Prospect. Other National Register Places include the Ivanhoe Masonic Temple at 2301 East Linwood and the Kansas City Athenaeum at 900 East Linwood. The boulevard lost much of its leafy charm in the 1930s when U.S. Route 40 City was routed down it. In 1955, Ray Lamar opened his

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shop in a converted gas station at 240 East Linwood. The

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store remained a simple low-tech landmark on the boulevard even as branches expanded through the Midwest and it drew national attention from

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and

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Route

* It passes

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from Main Street to

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on Linwood. * Stoplight, unusual signal made of cut-stone in the middle of the intersection designed by

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(1931), at Paseo Boulevard. * It passes

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at Linwood and Prospect Avenue. * It passes Central High School from Indiana Avenue to Cleveland Avenue on Linwood.

References

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External links

kchistory.org article on the boulevard
Streets in Kansas City, Missouri Boulevards in the United States

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