The vagrants were inclined to crime for their sporadic leisure money, and the saloon owners would often snitch on vagrants when questioned by police. By early 1906, the north side (what now includes River Market) reportedly harbored an epidemic cycle of vagrancy due to "disreputable" saloon owners giving food, clothing, alcohol, and shelter under their porch awnings, knowing that what little money the vagrants would ever earn would soon be spent in the favored saloons. Such crimes included homelessness, unemployment, alcoholism and other drug addiction, gambling addiction, domestic violence, public drunkenness or fighting, petty theft, scams, pimping or "vampires", or unpaid debt. Vagrancy was a class of petty crimes usually arising from a chronically degenerate lifestyle, resistance to employment and existing social programs, or just hard luck. Prohibition of alcohol was enacted in Kansas in 1881 and nationwide in 1919, so drinkers simply went to Kansas City, Missouri's hundreds of saloons and taverns where the Pendergast political machine maintained alcohol supply.
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Background īy the late 1800s and early 1900s, Kansas City experienced an explosion in population and in petty crime. History This postcard of the castle is c. The site has resumed vacancy and attracting graffiti since 2016. The Kansas City Star nicknamed the project "Daniel and Ebony's Modern Fairy Tale", as the castle's first functionality in 42 years. In 2014, Daniel and Ebony Edwards led a huge nonprofit project to successfully remove 62 tons of trash, and then hosted their own wedding and various community events there, with the ultimately unrealized goal of buying and developing it into a permanent community center. In 2014, it was bought conditionally cash-free by its current owner, Vewiser Dixon. The castle has been only a token feature among many broken promises by developers for lucrative areawide rehabilitation, at least one of whom proposed the structure's demolition. The structure steadily accumulated trash, trees, graffiti, and a cascade of unproductive owners and investors including Bank of America and a convicted con artist. Across the decades of infamous blight of the whole Vine Street District, the dilapidated wood interior collapsed down to only the open limestone walls. Across the next five decades, the castle and surrounding field were periodically repurposed more than one dozen times including as a city storage facility, a Marine training camp, and a dog euthanasia center-abandoned in 1972.
The castle is within the 18th and Vine Jazz District, which has been referred to as America's third most recognized street after Broadway and Hollywood Boulevard due to the legacy of Kansas City jazz music. Its function in corrections ended in 1924, succeeded by the Leeds Farm to the remote east of the city where inmates also grew crops. It was conceived as a model of humanitarian housing and rehabilitation. Its first Superintendent, Major Alfred Brant, proudly declared it "the best building Kansas City has". Its Romanesque Revival architecture with castellated towers were in vogue among the Kansas City upper class at the time. On December 20, 1897, the castle was inaugurated as the city's new workhouse with dedicated jail. The castle was constructed by contractors in 1897 for US$25,700 (equivalent to $904,000 in 2022) next to the natural deposit of yellow limestone which had been quarried by inmates of the preceding city workhouse jail across Vine Street.
Kansas City Business Center for Entrepreneurial Development Ĭity workhouse castle ( Vine Street workhouse castle, Brant Castle ) is a city historical register site located at 2001 Vine Street in Kansas City, Missouri.
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