The Museum of Kansas City (3218 gladstone Blvd.) had all the elements in place for a party to celebrate the one year ...

Bair nearly doubled the footprint in 1906, adding a post office, a hardware store and the soda fountain. After falling into disrepair, Bair’s relatives donated the building to the museum ...

The Bair, a bistro and “living museum” in a historic landmark in Steilacoom, is closed temporarily while crews restore its early-20th-century soda fountain to “new but old” working condition.