Santa Fe Place Historic District Community Service

Community Service – Santa Fe Place Historic District

Lindsay Jarquio has organized a new community service project for the Club in the Santa Fe Place Historic District.  Please sign up this Friday (or by writing to Lindsay) to volunteer on Saturday, June 1, from 8 a.m. to noon.

Club members will be planting flowers and clearing weeds at KC Monarch legend Satchel Paige's house, making minor home repairs, and working in the neighborhood gardens.  Erik Dickinson is planning for the Urban Rangers to join us.   Lunch at The Combine will follow.  Please reach out to Lindsay (lindsayjarquio@gmail.com) with questions.  

In 1931, the Santa Fe Place neighborhood created a covenant that "no real estate in Santa Fe Place could be sold, given, rented to or occupied by black people for a period of thirty years." Despite the covenant, in 1948, Dr. D.M. Miller and his wife became the first African American family to establish residency in Santa Fe.  The Missouri Supreme Court ruled the covenant unconstitutional and illegal in 1949.  By the 1950s, affluent African American families began moving into the neighborhood.  Read more about Santa Fe Place historic district here.

The Santa Fe Place Historic District is a 160-acre residential area in Kansas City’s urban core.  It is bounded by four thoroughfares: 27th Street on the north, Linwood Boulevard on the south, Prospect Avenue on the west, and Indiana Avenue on the east.

Editors Note:  This link takes you to an interactive map.  Clicking on the various colored squares shows the homes and pictures of historical people who were a part of Santa Fe Place:  https://kcmo.maps.arcgis.com/apps/instant/attachmentviewer/index.html?appid=57275527b9784011a01eb3619130bd88&attachmentIndex=0&center=-94.5415%2C39.0382&defaultObjectId=61&level=11&selectedLayerId=AAHTKC_Sites_March21_1907