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Title: Time Ran Out For Minute Circle
Description: Article details the closing the Minute Circle Friendly House at 2405 Elmwood Avenue. Andrew Campos was recently fired over financial concerns according to Board President David Garrett. The insurance on the center had not been paid and it was operating in a deficent.
Date: 2003-10-01
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Nonprofit Center Closes after 93 Years
Description: Article reports the closing of the Minute Circle Friendly House, an East Side community center founded in 1910 by the Ladies Aid Society of the Linwood Boulevard Christian Church. The center had been located at 2405 Elmwood Avenue since 1967, and closed due to a lack of funding.
Date: 2003-09-22
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Minute Circle Friendly House
Description: Partial view of the Minute Circle Friendly House, located at 2405 Elmwood Avenue. Architects Monroe & Lefebvre received an award for attractive utilitarian design for their work on this neighborhood center.
Date: 1968
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Sanborn Map, Kansas City, Vol. 3, 1909-1950, Page p338
Description: A portion of Kansas City from E. 19th Street south to E. 21st Street and from Agnes Avenue east to College Avenue, showing buildings, streets, and additions. Large numbers at edges of page refer to page with adjoining area.
Date: 1909/1950
Object Type: Map

Title: Minute Circle Friendly House
Description: Exterior view of young girls and adult with pets in cages for a nature study class at the Minute Circle Friendly House located at 3026 E. 21st Street according to the 1930 Kansas City city directory.
Date: 1930~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Minute Circle Friendly House
Description: Interior view of instructor and young boys making toys in wood shop at the Minute Circle Friendly House located at 3026 E. 21st Street according to the 1930 Kansas City city directory.
Date: 1930~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Future: The Newsweekly for Today
Description: Issue of the anti-corruption, Kansas City-based newspaper, Future: The Newsweekly for Today. The front page includes an article, continued on page 8, about the apartments on the Country Club Plaza and Armour Boulevard managed by the Assured Rental Company (led by George Goldman and Herman Shapiro), in the city's "South Side," voting against the Pendergast ticket City Council nominees. Apartment buildings involved including "the White Hall apartments, 323 Brush Creek boulevard; the Alcazar, 101 West [39th Street]," and "the Armour Plaza apartments, 1216 East Armour boulevard, and the Ricardo, 811 East Armour boulevard." Other featured articles include: “Ah! Union!” (p. 3), about the 1936 election for Missouri state senator, with Bennett Clark winning over Pendergast candidate Charles Howell despite being "robbed of 20,000 votes in Kansas City"; and “May We Present Bryson Ayres” (p. 5), a photo and profile of Bryson Ayres, an Independence florist and anti-Pendergast activist born in Missouri and growing up in the Pacific Northwest before coming to Kansas City; also included in the newspaper are advertisements for local businesses and articles on fashion, finance, cooking, music, art, and national and international news.
Date: 1935-06-07
Object Type: Newspaper

Title: Community Houses Once Helped to Knit Neighbors Together
Description: Community houses provided an important source of social services, recreation, and community in poor neighborhoods. The Minute Circle Friendly House was a good example. Formed by the merging of two separate organizations, it was first at 3026 E. 21st Street and later at 23rd and Lawn.
Date: 1989-02-08
Object Type: Newspaper Article

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