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This photograph of the first floor center hall at Grinter Place shows children with Santa Claus. Harry and Bernice Hanson purchased Grinter Place, located in Wyandotte County, Kansas, from Reverend Henry C. and Martha V. Grinter Kirby's daughter in 1950. The Hansons owned and operated a chicken-dinner restaurant on the site until the mid-1960s. Built in 1857, Grinter Place is the oldest home in Wyandotte County and overlooks the historic Delaware Crossing on the Kansas River. It is a two-story brick house built and owned by Moses and Annie Grinter. He operated a ferry across the Kansas River and from 1855 to 1860, Grinter owned a trading post that sold about one hundred sixty types of goods including clothing, powder and bullets, perfume, sugar, and scissors, among other things to the Delawares in exchange for cash and furs. The Grinters also farmed, raised poultry and livestock, and planted an apple orchard on their farmstead. Through the assistance of the Junior League of Kansas City, Kansas, and the Grinter Place Friends, the State of Kansas acquired the site in 1971 and now administers the former Grinter residence as a state historic site.
Date: 1950
Item Number: 215763
Call Number: FK2.W7 .79 *97
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 215763
Built Environment - National Register of Historic Places
Collections - Photograph
Community Life - Events and Celebrations - Holidays - Christmas
Date - 1950s - 1950
Home and Family - Children
Home and Family - Residences - Interiors - Entryways/halls
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph
Places - Counties - Wyandotte
Places - Historic sites - Grinter Place
Type of Material - Photographs
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