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Welcome to the Englewood Station Arts District. You'll find our community is linked in a unique way - we support the arts by displaying and selling artisan works throughout the businesses of this growing Arts & Entertainment District. We invite you to relax, enjoy and re-discover Englewood Station.
The Englewood Station Arts District of Western Independence, Missouri is alive with art, street performers, music, food, fashion and fun each 3rd Friday! Multiple galleries and businesses that feature art are within an easy stroll of one another along Winner Road from Sterling to Ralston Avenues. Opening our doors for a free 3rd Friday Art Walk event each month from 5:30 to 9 PM, a rotating collection of over four dozen local and regional artists display their creativity for sale here, and are regularly on-site for meet and greet. Mark your calendar so you won't miss a single Englewood Art Walk!
If you can't make our event nights, please stop by the galleries anytime during our regular business hours to enjoy the everchanging selection of artisan works.
Englewood is one of the original suburban shopping districts in the area.......We started as a trolley stop!
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Galleries
Englewood Business
Association
B-Vogue Salon & Gallery
11100 E. Winner Rd / 833-7770
Three Trails Trading Post
11022 E. Winner Rd / 252-5622
DEE CEE Art Gallery
11109 E. Winner Rd / 886-1359
Tiki Tans Gallery
11008 E. Winner Rd / 252-7878
La Plaza Mkt & Restaurant
11100-4 E. Winner Rd / 836-8688
The Russ Lawrence Gallery
11014 E. Winner Rd / 252-3372
Puppetry Arts Institute
11025 E. Winner Rd / 833-9777
Green Dog Gallery
10922 E. Winner Rd / 254-3154
Winner Road Gallery
10916 E. Winner Rd / 461-1717
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Artists' Connection
Massage Therapy Health Ctr
10912 E. Winner Rd / 665-2919
Detour Coffee Shop
10921 E. Winner Rd / 210-8222
Big Rand's Quilt Studio
10906 E. Winner Rd / 503-8632
The Boxcar Gallery
10908 E. Winner Rd
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Vivalore
10815 E. Winner Rd
Appleton Avenue Arts
1717 Appleton Ave / 252-1945
Cork & Barrel
10819 E. Winner Rd
Businesses
Independence Economic Development
201 N. Forest Avenue / 463-3512
Lord & Associates, Inc.
10609 E. Winner Rd / 254-0980
Montacie Development
10912 E. Winner Rd
665-2919 Alice
682-7941 Ruth
716-4836 Susan
Englewood Theatre
10917 E. Winner Rd / 252-2463
11000-4 E. Winner Rd / 836-8688
Tiki Tans
Changing Seasons Florist
Home Sweet Home Bakery
B-Vogue Salon
Friday, November 18, 2011 - 5:30 to 9:00 pm
Carolers from Santa Fe Trail Elementary
visit Englewood Station 12/16/11.
MYSTIC PUMPKIN FESTIVAL
Scenes from 2011
Englewood Station Celebrates National Flag Day
June 11, 2011
1 Hawthorne Place Hawthorne Bed and Breakfast 252-2607
NORTH
S. Ralston Avenue
E. 18th Street
10609 Lord & Associates, Inc. 254-0980
10707 HealthStar Chiropractic 350-1100
East Winner Road
Northern Blvd
(opening soon) Vivalore 10815
Cork & Barrel 10819
S. Appleton Avenue
1717 Appleton Ave Appleton Avenue Arts 252-1945
PARKING 10904 E. Winner Rd Englewood Cafe 461-9588
10906 Big Rand's Quilt Studio 503-8632
10908 The Boxcar Gallery
10912 Massage Therapy Health Center
10916 Winner Road Gallery 461-1717
10918
10920 Englewood Police (substation) 325-7646
10922 Green Dog Art Gallery & Studios 254-3154
252-2463 Englewood Theatre 10917
210-8222 Detour Coffee Shop 10921
833-9777 Puppetry Arts Institute 11025
S. Harris Avenue
11000 La Plaza Restaurant 836-8688
11004 La Plaza Market 836-8621
11008 Tiki Tanz 252-7878
11010
11014 Changing Seasons Florist & Art Gallery 252-3372
11022 Three Trails Trading Post 252-5622
11026 Mark Davis (residence)
S. Harvard Avenue
PARKING
11100 B Vogue Salon & Gallery 833-7770
886-1359 Home Sweet Home Bakery & Dee Cee Gallery 11109
FRIENDS of EBA
David Raasch
MEMBERS of EBA (out of area)
Independence Economic Development, 201 N. Forest Ave., 463-3512
Sterling Avenue
EBA
HISTORY
The South Englewood Improvement Association:
The area which became known as Englewood was a center of residential development and a core of business activity long before the concept of suburban shopping centers developed. The name "Englewood" appears on a 1904 map as an addition platted on land owned by the Winner Investment Company south of the Chicago and Alton Railway and west of Sterling Avenue. Commercial activity in the area between Sterling and Northern Street began as early as 1910.
By 1917, approximately forty families lived in the general vicinity. That year twenty-two individuals organized the South Englewood Improvement Association to secure improvements in the area south of the Chicago and Alton Railroad, east of Rock Creek and west of the Independence city limits. The association met at the Rock Creek School and elected Frank E. Garman, William Merrill, F.A. Barnett and James A. Sloan as its officers. The organization immediately petitioned the County Court for a paved road on Sterling Avenue south from the C. & A. tracks to Douglas and west to Rock Creek. The group also successfully lobbied three times between 1917 and 1927 for the enlargement of the Rock Creek School. Their efforts secured improvements west along 23rd Street from Sterling, the opening of 23rd from Benton east to the Independence-Raytown Road, opening Northern north from 23rd with a grade crossing over the C. & A. tracks, installation of twenty street lights, classification of all roads in the district as county highways, construction of a bridge over Rock Creek on Sterling, and an under- and over-pass west of Rock Creek school.
Up to the early 1920's, Englewood's commercial center consisted of a few businesses located on the north and south sides of Mount Washington Boulevard, an unpaved road with an electric trolley line running through its middle. The post-WWI residential building boom which lasted throughout the 1920's brought dramatic change to the area. William H. Harrison conducted the largest home development operation of its kind in the "inter-city area," creating a sizable residential population which required retail and business services. As a result, the local shopping centers of Englewood, Maywood and Fairmount expanded. In December 1922, Englewood, Missouri incorporated as a fourth class city. Forty-two days later the city disincorporated due to the confusion caused by another city named Englewood in nearby Gladstone. Thereafter it was called "Englewood Station." The officers of the short-lived city were Arthur F. Gordon, John K. Hoover, J.H. Smith and McDonald Harris. At that time an effort to annex the area into Independence failed. Many Englewood residents and business owners opposed joining Independence or Kansas City. Continuing as an unincorporated area presented certain problems. The Independence Examiner editor noted certain concerns. "The people who live in the district are the ones who should be anxious. They cannot expect to continue as a county district without organization and without power to secure protection from a sanitary standpoint and on other accounts."
The observation had some merit. Englewood, like other inter-city communities, came under the jurisdiction of the Jackson County Court. The area enjoyed few public services and was often referred to by residents and business owners as the "stepchild of the County Court." Volunteers led by C.S. Hunting provided the only fire protection. Police protection came under the county's sheriff. Persistent problems in enforcement occurred as indicated in a 1924 article in the Examiner. "Aroused by increasing lawlessness, citizens of Englewood have volunteered to act as police until official protection is provided." Later, in the 1930's, Englewood, Maywood, and Fairland Heights hired "Slim" Palmer to patrol the area.
The History of Englewood Plaza
Englewood Plaza, located in a quiet middle-class neighborhood in western Independence, is a bit of Main Street U.S.A. The group of utilitarian buildings housing ordinary stores also enjoys the distinction of being one of the earliest suburban shopping "centers" in the area. Originally a trolley stop in a sparsely developed residential area, Englewood owes its beginnings to the visionary schemes of Kansas City real estate agent and developer, Willard Winner. During the real estate boom of the 1880's, Winner sought to capitalize on the development in the Blue River Valley in the area between Kansas City's rapidly extending eastern boundaries and development pushing westward from Independence. In 1886, the Winner Investment company formed the "Eastside Syndicate" and purchased 2,400 acres which ran east to Independence from Kansas City. Here Winner planned a tract to be called Washington Park and began securing a right-of-way for a rail line to operate between Kansas City and Independence.
Washington Park and The Dummy Line:
Many scoffed at the idea; the line would never pay for itself! The Kansas City limits extended only as far east as Cleveland Avenue. Independence's western boundary was only a mile or so from the city square. The stretch of seven or eight miles between the two cities consisted of a sparsely settled farm district with a small population of around two hundred people. Nevertheless, the following year Winner formed the Kansas City Independence and Park Railway Company to build a rail line connecting Independence with the eastern terminus of Kansas City's Metropolitan Street Railway cable line at Fifteenth Street.
