Tree Top View

                    Looking West from the Kansas City Museum across Kessler Park on a rainy day..

Botanically Speaking My Dear Watson

Michelle Watson's yard each year is a treat for us in Historic Northeast.  This year is no exception.  And I had permission to trespass :) ...

Spring Past, Just A Memory

Since Spring is so far a no show... here's a couple of images from the past - Cliff Drive. 

Brownstone Renewal Ongoing

 The William Chick Scarritt home (1887) continues it's return to glory with new, upper floor, windows.  Special order thermal since they are curved.  Only two panes left to install.  This house has come a long, long way since it burned a year and a half ago.

Flowing Light

Concourse Fountain in Northeast Kansas City at sundown 12/16/17

William Chick Scarritt House - Update

Gutted by fire a year and a half ago, the mansion at 3240 Norledge in Northeast Kansas City is slowly returning to its glory.   The curved windows in the "tower" are now being installed.  There is only one factory in the United States that will make to order curved, thermal windows.  It is is Arkansas.  It took a while for those to arrive.  The home was constructed in 1887 for William Chick Scarritt, son of Nathan Scarritt who owned most of the land in the immediate vicinity. 

Fall On The Drive

                                              A few shots of Cliff Drive this Fall.

Climbing cliffs above, disc golf below.

                                                                     North Terrace (Green) Lake

Scarritt House Reconstruction Progress

 A little over four months ago this house was almost gutted by fire.   The reconstruction is coming right along.

Ground Clouds

                                                    A foggy night in Northeast Kansas City.

Scarritt House Update

 

The William Chick Scarritt Home, 3240 Norledge, reconstruction is progressing nicely.  Should have the roof in place by the middle of January.  Which means time from fire to re-roof just four months. The third floor is completed.  Below, sections for the reconstruction are prefabricated just a block away. I'll follow up with the raising (literally) of the roof in a couple of weeks. The home was originally built in 1888. 

Foggy Vistas

                                    The Concourse Fountain and the Colonnade enveloped in mist.

Colonnoir

                          The Colonnade in Northeast Kansas City at night.  Constructed 1908.

                                      Looking North with Cliff Drive in the foreground.