Foggy River Town

 

The City was mystical yesterday as the fog rolled in and stayed.  Above and below, the Richardson-Graham Bridge over Anderson Road in Northeast Kansas City.  

All shots below are of Kaw Point.  The Kaw River is on the right, the Missouri River on the left.  The skyline of Kansas City is normally visible right in the center.  

How Low Can Mo Go

The river is always lower at this time of year as much water is tide up in ice further north.  But

I've never seen it this low. 

All of this land is normally under water . 

 

                                           Stuff is starting to show up....that used to be underwater.

Kansas City Skyline From Waterworks Park - February 2018

 

One Tree - Four Seasons

                                         In Kessler Park just west of the Kansas City Museum. 
 

A Walk In Northeast

Cannot pass up a surprise opportunity like our overnight dusting.  Kessler Park, Colonnade, Victorian Homes and the Kansas City Museum. 

 

                                             Edward "Lucky" Scarritt home 1897. 

                                                                  The Colonnade, 1908.

                                                                      Kessler Park. 

                                                                    Kansas City Museum

                                                              William Wallace house 1880s. 

                                                 Bishop and Annie Scarritt Hendrix House 1887. 

                                                         William Chick Scarritt house 1887.

Sashes, Doors, And More, And Great Grandfather

In 1870 William Huttig founded the Huttig Manufacturing Company in Muscatine, Iowa.  He was born in Germany and came to Iowa and studied music.  Then he started a grocery business followed by the manufacture of doors and sills and sashes.  This business was founded in 1870.  In 1882 his two sons, below, left for Kansas City and built the Western Sash and Door Company.  It was at 22nd and Grand. My Great Grandfather, George Vetter, worked at the mill in Muscatine and when the brothers went south to KC he went with them.   He started on the lowest rung and worked his way up to Superintendent of the Kansas City millworks.   Michael Bushnell made significant contributions to this post, from the Northeast News archives. 

Above, Western Sash and Door building.  Foreground is the future location of Union Station.  Another view of the factory below. 

 In 1906 this building was closed and a new one built in Northeast on Wilson Road.  The new building stood where Price Chopper and the Northeast Library stand now.  The photo below was taken in 1925, the others of the buildings are from 1940.    With the construction of the new location my Great Grandfather moved from a house at 2002 Broadway to a house at 645 Brighton Avenue. 

The building below sits just behind the dirt mound on the right in the above photo.

                          Below, this building sat where the Northeast Library sits now. 

                           My Grandfather's car, below, is parked in front of the building above. 

My Great Grandfather in his car, below, and car by itself, above.  Car is parked outside Huttig Mills. 

                                                      Below, George and Annie Vetter.