Rosedale, Kansas is a
community
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of
Kansas City, Kansas
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, in the southeast corner of
Wyandotte County
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and bordered on the north by the
Kansas River
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and the
Armourdale neighborhood, on the south by
Johnson County, on the west by the
Argentine
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neighborhood, and on the east by the state of
Missouri
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. It is home to the
Rosedale World War I Memorial Arch
The Rosedale Arch is dedicated to the men of Rosedale, a neighborhood district and former municipality on the southern edge of Kansas City, Kansas, who served in World War I. Inspired by the Arc de Triomphe, the Arch was designed by John LeRoy Mar ...
and the
University of Kansas Medical Center
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.
History
Rosedale originated as "The Town of Rosedale, Shawnee Township" in 1872. In 1875, a new population requirement of 600 persons was established to become a "City of the Third Class" in Kansas. A petition was presented to Hiram Stevens, Judge of the Tenth Judicial District (
Wyandotte,
Johnson
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and
Miami
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counties). The judge issued an order for incorporating the village as a city and election of officers was held August 28, 1877. The new city was named "The City of Rosedale, Kansas."
By 1897 the area known as Rosedale had a population of over 2,000 inhabitants. Rosedale remained an independent city until it was annexed by
Kansas City, Kansas
Kansas City, abbreviated as "KCK", is the third-largest city in the U.S. state of Kansas, and the county seat of Wyandotte County. It is an inner suburb of the older and more populous Kansas City, Missouri, after which it is named. As of ...
in 1922.
Education
Primary and secondary schools
It is in the
Kansas City, Kansas School District
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.
Elementary schools include:
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T. A. Edison Elementary School has about 330 students. Edison, in 1954, received a ten room expansion.
*Noble Prentis School: Noble Prentis School was built in 1912 as a four room school. An additional four rooms and activity room were installed in 1950 with an additional expansion on floors 2 and 3 in 1955.
[
*Frank Rushton Elementary School: Maple Leaf School was built in Rosedale in 1911 and later renamed after ]University of Kansas
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chancellor Dr. Francis Huntington Snow. A new building was built in 1956, and the school was renamed again after Rosedale Schools and later Kansas City Schools board member Frank Rushton.[
Rosedale Middle School is the local middle school.] Its local high school is J. C. Harmon High School.
History of education
"Cooks Hall" hosted the first school in Rosedale, and "The Public School" or "The White School", later "Whitmore" after one of the teachers, was the first standalone school. The average enrollment was about 250 people. In 1899 the new Whitmore school, with eight regular rooms and four other rooms, was established, with construction bids received the previous August.[
The Ely School served the then-rural northern part of Rosedale.][
Rosedale High School originated in 1884 within "The Public School", and in 1886 it had its first graduating class, made up of seven students, after 1905 each year had its own graduating class. A dedicated building was constructed for $25,000 in 1906. In 1913 there were 115 students. The city voted for an expansion worth $28,000 in 1913, and the east wing was established, including the gymnasium, in the summer of that year. On March 18, 1927, a new school was built for $160,000. The school district demolished the 1906 building that year. 7th graders from other schools were transferred to Rosedale High, now Rosedale Junior-Senior High School, in 1927.][
Attucks School, the second major school built in Rosedale, had a building constructed in 1889 and a new brick building in 1939, the latter colored tan.][
"The Brick School", renamed Columbian in 1892 in honor of the ]Columbian Exposition
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, was constructed for $8,000 in 1888 with four rooms. An expansion added for additional rooms. In 1930 the Kindergarten building opened.[
A ]Shawnee
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area had, in 1876, a school built called the Macchochaque School, a part of the District 39/Malvern Hill school district, with the name meaning "Place of Refreshment". Rosedale annexed the school in 1911. Subsequently a new two story school building was established, initially with eight rooms and later with an auditorium and four more rooms added.[
The ]University of Kansas Medical Center
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bought the Macchochaque School in 1958 and demolished it in Spring 1968; Macchochaque students were reassigned to Edison and Snow. The University-Rosedale Urban Renewal Agency purchased the Columbian School in March 1966 and demolished it the following October. Attucks School closed in 1972 and began housing commercial purposes around 1975.[ Rosedale Senior High merged with ]Argentine
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Senior High School to form J.C. Harmon High in 1973.[ The former Rosedale High was converted into a junior high school. The former Whitmore School was demolished in 1973.][
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Public libraries
The Kansas City, Kansas Public Library previously operated the Rosedale Branch. On March 15, 1927, the library branch opened in Rosedale High.[
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Notable people
* James P. Cannon, founding leader of the Socialist Workers Party.
* Frank L. Hagaman, former Governor
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of Kansas
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* Dick Harp
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, University of Kansas
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basketball coach
Site
*Rosedale World War I Memorial Arch
The Rosedale Arch is dedicated to the men of Rosedale, a neighborhood district and former municipality on the southern edge of Kansas City, Kansas, who served in World War I. Inspired by the Arc de Triomphe, the Arch was designed by John LeRoy Mar ...
, memorial for World War I
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veterans of Rosedale, Kansas
* Boulevard Drive-In, drive-in movie theater that has been in operation since 1950, showing movies every weekend during the summer
*Sauer Castle
The Sauer Castle is an Italianate architecture home at 935 Shawnee Road in Kansas City, Kansas, built from 1871 to 1873. It was designed by famed architect Asa Beebe Cross as the residence of Anton Sauer. He had married Francesca in Vienna, Aus ...
, legendary haunted house
*University of Kansas Medical Center
The University of Kansas Medical Center, commonly referred to as KU Med or KUMC, is a medical campus for the University of Kansas. KU Med houses the university's schools of medicine, nursing, and health professions, with the primary health science ...
*University of Kansas School of Medicine
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*University of Kansas Hospital
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*Vox Theatre
The Vox Theatre is an event space located in Rosedale, Kansas.
The Vox Theatre History
The Vox Theatre opened as the Rosedale Theatre on December 20, 1922 as a silent movie theater. The Rosedale Theatre was originally owned by T.L. Ricksecke ...
, formerly a silent movie
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theatre, turned event space
Further reading
* ''Wyandotte County and Kansas City, Kansas - Historical and Biographical''; Goodspeed Publishing Co; 932 pages; 1890.[''Wyandotte County and Kansas City, Kansas - Historical and Biographical''; Goodspeed Publishing Co; 932 pages; 1890.](_blank)
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* ''The Winding Valley and The Craggy Hillside: A History of the City of Rosedale, Kansas'' by Margaret Landis, Copyright 1976
References
External links
Rosedale Development Association
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Neighborhoods in Kansas City, Kansas
Populated places established in 1872
Former municipalities in Kansas
1872 establishments in Kansas