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09/03/2026

09/02/2026

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08/29/2026

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08/28/2026

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08/24/2026

School starts this week 🚌

08/23/2026

Come by and see us !

We will be at the Chill Spot tonight with our real estate team! Our buildings and apartments will be open again to view. Hope to see you there! 🍦 🍒

08/22/2026

History is cool 😎

On November 1, 1921, Kansas City hosted a gathering that would be almost impossible to recreate today. Five of the most famous Allied military leaders of World War I stood together at the site dedication for the Liberty Memorial: Marshal Ferdinand Foch of France, General John J. Pershing of the United States, General Armando Diaz of Italy, General Baron Jacques of Belgium, and Admiral David Beatty of Great Britain. The National WWI Museum and Memorial preserves their likenesses today on the Dedication Wall.

The scale of the memorial that followed matched the ambition of that gathering. The Liberty Memorial Tower rises 217 feet above Memorial Courtyard and 268 feet above the North Lawn. Its four sculpted Guardian Spirits are each about 40 feet tall and represent Honor, Courage, Patriotism and Sacrifice. Memory Hall preserves the names of 441 Kansas Citians who died in World War I, while the memorial's architecture deliberately uses ancient forms and symbolic figures to turn a modern industrial war into a place of public remembrance.

Kansas City's connection to the memorial also came from ordinary residents, not just famous generals. The community launched a fundraising drive after the war, and the project became a civic statement about how the city wanted to remember the conflict. The original memorial opened in the 1920s, later underwent a major restoration and expansion, and today the site houses the National WWI Museum and Memorial. The tower remains one of the most recognizable pieces of the Kansas City skyline.

But the anchor moment is still that November day in 1921. Five commanders from five Allied nations, all standing together in Missouri only three years after the armistice, while thousands of people looked on. It is one of those local scenes that suddenly makes Kansas City feel connected to global history. If you could stand in that crowd for one hour, would you watch the military leaders on the platform or turn around and study the faces of the veterans who had come home?