Thursday, January 3, 2013

Strawberry Hill Museum

The Victorian home was built in 1887 for John and Margaret Scroggs, who lived there for 32 years. In 1919, St. John the Baptist Parish acquired the structure so the nuns could provide a home for orphans from the 1918 influenza epidemic. The Strawberry Hill Ethnic Cultural Society purchased it in 1988 for conversion into a museum dedicated to the promotion and preservation of the Slavic heritage prevalent in the Kansas City, Kansas area.

The Strawberry Hill area lost 218 homes when I-70 was constructed in the 1950s but still has an impressive view of downtown Kansas City.

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