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Many modern-day Wichitans don’t know that Cowtown, the Old West-themed museum at 1865 Museum Blvd. that brings Wichita’s earliest days back to life, once had a full service, on-site restaurant ...
Riverside is located at 37°41′55″N 97°21′35″W (37.698611, -97.359722) at an elevation of 1,306 feet (398 m). [11] The Arkansas River forms its western and southern border, 13th Street North its northern border, and Bitting Street, the Little Arkansas River, and Nims Street its eastern border.
Downtown Wichita is located at 37°41′20″N 97°20′10″W (37.688888, −97.336111) at an elevation of 1,299 feet (396 m). [11] It mainly consists of the area between Murdock Street to the north, U.S. Route 54 (Kellogg) to the south, the Arkansas River to the west, and Washington Street to the east. Portions of Downtown overlap with the ...
Darius Sales Munger House, built in 1868, is the oldest surviving building in Witchita. [3]Pioneer trader Jesse Chisholm, a half-white, half-Native American who was illiterate but who spoke multiple Native American languages, established a trading post at the site in the 1860s, and Chisholm traded cattle and goods with the Wichita tribe at points south along a trail from Wichita into present ...
In Wichita, US 54/US 400 is known as Kellogg Avenue, and has junctions with I-235, I-135 and I-35, the Kansas Turnpike, before a junction with K-96. The Kellogg Avenue freeway has six lanes and extends 16 miles (26 km) from 111th Street on the west side of Wichita to Zelta just before the I-35/Kansas Turnpike interchange on the east side.
The Wichita Art Museum is an art museum located in Wichita, Kansas, United States. [1] The museum was established in 1915, when Louise Caldwell Murdock ’s Will which created a trust to start the Roland P. Murdock Collection of art in memory of her husband. The trust would purchase art for the City of Wichita by “American painters, potters ...
The mall was first planned in 1972 as Kellogg Mall, but was later changed to Towne East Square. Construction began in 1973, [7] and officially opened on August 14, 1975, [8] and was the first large, modern, multi-level enclosed mall in Wichita. The original anchors were JCPenney, Dillard's, Henry's, Sears (which opened soon after the mall ...
History. Present-day Midtown was the original town site of Wichita, first platted in 1865 and initially settled in the late 1860s and 1870s. Postmaster, surveyor, and hotelkeeper Darius Munger built the city’s first house in 1868 at the corner of what are today Waco and 9th Streets. Constructed from cottonwood logs, his house went on to serve ...