NRHP Reference # 91001151 Added to NRHP 9 September 1991 | Built 1914 Opened 1914 | |
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MPS 18th and Vine Area of Kansas City MPS Architectural style Colonial Revival architecture Similar 18th and Vine‑Downtown East, Negro Leagues Baseball, Mutual Musicians' Foundati, Locust Creek Covered, Watkins Woolen Mill State | ||
Old paseo ymca turned into buck o neil center
The Paseo YMCA is a U.S. historic YMCA in Kansas City, Missouri.
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History
The Paseo YMCA was and opened in 1914, when Julius Rosenwald encouraged Kansas Citians to raise $80,000 toward building a new YMCA. In 1920 eight independent black baseball team owners met to form what would become the Negro National League and later, the Negro Leagues. Later, in the 1970s, it closed.
Museum renovations
In 2006, an effort was headed by the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum to renovate the museum, called "Thanks a Million Buck". The goal to raise a million dollars was quickly reached when John "Buck" O'Neil died in October 2006.
The YMCA is scheduled to reopen as an extension of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in 2007 and the Buck O'Neil Education Research Center.
The architect of the Paseo YMCA was local architect Charles A. Smith.